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A couple weeks ago I bought three NICs at Fry's.  All RTL8139C based,  
from three different manufactures.  One was $8 and the other two were  
$10.  I found the drivers at Realtek.  I do not recall that they were  
hard to find.  
 
I have only tried one.  It works OK.  
 
Ray  
 
 
Steve Carter wrote:  
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> I found some nice $2 Realtek 8139 PCI NICs there and  
> needed drivers.  Found the Realtek site with the OS/2 drivers  
> ONLY after searching the FCC ID, thanks to Tim Katz  
> (didn't I say he's real good at this kind of thing?).  
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> BTW, I saw that new Realtek 8139 drivers are now available,  
> I think possibly from IBM.  It's not that these are the best NICs  
> going, it's just that they are plentiful and cheap and my  
> NIC needs are easily met.  
>  
 
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