Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 13:54:13 -0300 From: "Mark Dodel" Subject: [VOICENWS] HW: Great OS/2 LAN card! From: "Walter F. Metcalf" I changed the motherboard in one of my systems a few days ago, and for some reason the NIC I was using no longer worked. So I was forced to start hunting for another one. I found a great deal that I want to pass on to the rest of the OS/2-eCS community. The NIC I found is a Belkin Desktop Network PCI Card #F5D5000. You can buy this card from Staples online for $19.99 Canadian. (I don't know what the Staples U.S. price is. However the factory price from Belkin is $19.99 U.S.) Although, you can get cheaper NIC's, but it would be extremely hard to get a card for less than this with all these features: Full 10/100 Base-T Ethernet Full-Duplex Support Wakeup-On-Lan support w/ cable ***Staples claims it supports **OS/2** in the online catalog!*** Belkin offers lifetime warranty and free technical support; The driver is on the eCS 1.1 cdrom and is on the Installer menu, so you can forget about those pesky driver diskettes/CD's; Installation is a snap. I just inserted it into an arbitrary PCI slot on my ASUS A7V133-C motherboard, attached the LAN cable, and never looked at it again. It works like a charm! If I had the cash, I'd buy 6 of them, install one in each of my workstations, and never have to worry about NIC's again. Walter ------------------------------------- Walter F. Metcalf V.O.I.C.E. President http://www.os2voice.org WarpDoctor Coordinator http://www.warpdoctor.org walter.os2DESPAM at rogers.com ------------------------------------- -- Warpstock 2003 - San Francisco, California, October 18-19 http://www.warpstock.org [Moderator's note: Because of the incredible increase in SPAM lately I will now endeavor to add DESPAM to email addresses in all posts to the News list. Yes I know that the ReplyTo and From addresses are not modified. This action is to protect email addresses that will appear in HTML pages. If you wish to send a response to someone listed in the post be sure to remove the "DESPAM" from any email address in the body of the post.] -- To unsubscribe yourself from this list, send the following message to majormajor at os2voice.org unsubscribe news end If you have an announcement you would like posted to the VOICE News list, please send it to submit at os2voice.org. Please include a valid reply address and a real contact name. If you wish to comment on this post, please reply to feedback at os2voice.org