Re: [netatalk-admins] atalkd dies away / buy which NIC / I would like to know...


Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] atalkd dies away / buy which NIC / I would like to know...
From: Tony Grant (tg001@dial.oleane.com)
Date: Fri Nov 12 1999 - 03:22:30 EST


Lars wrote:

> *buy which NIC.
> Thanks a lot to Sascha Knific for his "tip" with the Via-Rhine driver
> enabled NICs. It made my Netatalk server show up in the chooser again. Even
> though one of my networks has a server running the exact card
> (D-Link550BTX) without any obvious troubles. Nevertheless I would like to
> trash the card an put in another one. Any suggestions (I thought of a
> 3com905BTX)?

Lucky you - mine didn't still fighting with the bas@&#ds.

Harry worte:

> Seriously, just get a DEC tulip based card - never had one iota of problems
> with those.

Would love to but the two cards cost me $45 and it is a SOHO network
where additional cash does tend to go to buying kids shoes and stuff
like that...

We will be biting the bullet and buying a printserver for the printer...

The thing that is puzzling me is where did it go wrong: kernel,
netatalk, NIC driver?

Cheers

Tony Grant



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