From: jyanowit@mtholyoke.edu (Jason Yanowitz) Subject: Incredibly cheap ethercards available!!! ($20) Date: 10 Aug 1993 17:54:20 GMT
Anyways, I've been looking for ethercards, and talking to Donald
Becker (becker@super.org) he mentioned he had recently finished a
driver for ne2100 clones -- specifically the Allied Telesis 1500.
So I called up the company to price out cards ($79 regular price, not
bad by itself) and they said, "Well, we have a special promotion right
now, 1 per person, $19.95 for the card." They take visa/mastercard.
The promo is supposed to go thru Sept. 30, but I'd jump on this deal ASAP.
Naturally, I bought one. I also explained what I was going to use it
for (Linux). Please do this if you order one. If they suddenly get a
ton of orders from Linux customers, this will make future support more
likely. (And Donald won't have to spend his time on doing other Linux
projects :-) So, anyways, the number is: (800) 424-5016, and they
evidently had an advert in PC Week. So good luck (the driver support
is in ALPHA-pl12, btw) and happy netting. Oh yeah, our network is
10Base-T, and the model number for htat card is 1500T. I assume they
have a thin-net version available.
Jason
ps: _please_ mention Linux when ordering. you can even mention Linus
("a nice chap, so popular he could travel around the world, getting
free room, board and beer as he passed from town to town...")
pps: thanks again to becker@super.org for writing the driver for a
non-brain-dead cheap ethercard.
ppps: and no, i don't have any connection to Allied Telesis.
--
-- Jason Yanowitz (jyanowit@orixa.mtholyoke.edu)
"And since a man can't make one, he has no right to tell a woman when and
where to create one." -2Pac