David S. Cargo wrote: > Are there some NICs that work better than others? I have 3Com > 3c509b cards and have had no luck getting two of them working on > the same system. I've got a Pentium 75 system (surplus from > Material Processing for which I paid $50) that I want to use > for my firewall box, but I have been putting off wrestling with > the issue until I get a DSL line (maybe sometime this month). > > dsc Actually, the 3c509 works *great*...if you can get it set up right. If you go to 3com's web site and download the driver disks (actually you only really need disk #2), extract 3c5x9cfg.exe, put it on a DOS bootable floppy (ugh, but it works) and boot onto it, you can change the configuration on one of the cards so that they aren't using the same I/O address & interrupt. I've got a pair of these in my firewall, and they work great. The self-extracting archive for EtherDisk #2 (as it's called) is available at: ftp://ftp.3com.com/pub/nic/3c509/3c509x2.exe or http://support.3com.com/infodeli/tools/nic/3c509/3c509x2.exe Hope this helps. Jima