Those 3Com NICs were the absolute bomb (and their PCI updates). Always go 3Com when you're working with PIII or lower class of hardware.
The SX is an ouch, though. That brings a lot of performance pains.
I remember installing period-appropriate Walnut Software-CDs of Red Hat and Slackware on 486/66 DX2 class machines. Linux was the easy part, the hard part was configuring xorg.conf (xfree86.conf? I don't remember) with the appropriate CRT geometry so you didn't kill your monitor.
Those 3Com NICs were the absolute bomb (and their PCI updates). Always go 3Com when you're working with PIII or lower class of hardware.
The SX is an ouch, though. That brings a lot of performance pains.
I remember installing period-appropriate Walnut Software-CDs of Red Hat and Slackware on 486/66 DX2 class machines. Linux was the easy part, the hard part was configuring xorg.conf (xfree86.conf? I don't remember) with the appropriate CRT geometry so you didn't kill your monitor.
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