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
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Walter F. Metcalf
V.O.I.C.E. President
http://www.os2voice.org
WarpDoctor Coordinator
http://www.warpdoctor.org
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Source: OS2VOICE