Recommend me a compatible Network Card

studiorat

Hi All,
I need to buy a network card to run alongside the onboard network controller.

The motherboard is a Intel DH67GD with the Intel 82579V Gigabit Ethernet Controller onboard. It works fine, eventually!

I need to fit a second ethernet card to the system so I'm looking for some suggestions.

I'm using Ubuntu Studio kernel 2.6 I think and AV linux which is also a Debian based affair.

Any thoughts?

What works for you? What should I avoid like the plague?

Khannie

I think more or less anything should work fine unless you're going very high end (10g). I haven't heard of network driver issues since forever.

LiamOSullivan

I've experienced a lot of network incompatibilities, but those were all either due to my inability to compile a kernel properly or were years ago.

In the fairly unlikely event that you stumble upon something which doesn't work with what you have, I don't know how Ubuntu feels about new kernels, but if Ubuntu studio releases are based off the general Ubuntu scheme, you could move up to 12.04, since that's using a kernel around 3.2 and should have few problems. Alternately, check about using different kernels in Ubuntu, and maybe even compile your own.(Takes a while, but you get a more optimised kernel and feel like a king)

Basically, I can't really see you having any trouble as long as you choose something that's not very new or very obscure.

druidhill

As the other contributors have said, network card issues were a lot more common years ago. Older PCI cards tend to be fine (I always go for a good quality one, brands like Intel or 3Com).