Encore NICs?

[jrv at vanzandt.mv.com (James R. Van Zandt)]

Randall Hofland <rhofland at fastdial.net> writes:
>
>Has anyone ever tried an Encore 10/100TX NIC (ENL832-TX?) under Linux
>or BSD? They seem very reasonably priced but I wonder about function
>and performance.

No, but you might take a look at the D-Link DFE-530TX+.  It's only $20
at CompUSA, provides 10baseT and 100baseTX, and is supported by this
driver in the 2.4.2 kernel:

  RealTek RTL-8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support
  CONFIG_8139TOO
    This is a driver for the Fast Ethernet PCI network cards based on
    the RTL8139 chips. If you have one of those, say Y and read
    Documentation/networking/8139too.txt as well as the Ethernet-HOWTO,
    available from http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html#howto .

Funny thing is, nothing on the box or in the paperwork mentions
RealTek RTL-8139, and nothing in the Linux documentation mentions the
D-Link model number.  The box does list Linux as a supported OS.  You
will find the device driver sources and decent instructions on a
floppy, too.

I have two of these cards that seem to be working fine.  I am only
getting about 10 Mbit/sec over an otherwise quiet network, but maybe
that's being limited by SSH encryption on a 166 MHz box.  Or, maybe
I'm getting only the performance I paid for :-)

	     - Jim Van Zandt

p.s. yes, the Linksys hub is rated for 100baseTX and I'm using CAT-5
patch cords.
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