Re: Peices n parts questions

On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Arthur Corliss wrote:

> Don't waste time on the Gb NIC. With that processor there's no way it would
> be able to handle the interrupts of a maxed-out full duplex 100Mbps NIC,
> especially after you add application processing, firewalling, etc. On a
> machine that old, you can use USB or 1394 PCI cards, but you need to make
> sure they support the older bus rates (I think the original spec is 33MHz),
> an odds are it's also a 5V bus, rather than the newer 3.3V. You may need to
> find a used parts store for a card matching that, though.

I should have mentioned that PCI does use different keying (the notch in the
card edge connector) depending on the required voltage, so in theory you
shouldn't have to worry about plugging in a low voltage card and frying it.
In practice, though, YMMV.

         --Arthur Corliss
           Live Free or Die
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Received on Tue Nov 13 12:42:15 2007