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> Can anyone recommend some PCI 100 Mbit ethernet cards/drivers
> that work well with the 2.4 linux-mips kernel?

At MIPS, we use AMD PCnet32 cards pretty exclusively,
and with good success under both 2.2 and 2.4.  For 2.2,
we did a pretty thorough reworking of the driver to deal with 
MIPS endianness and (especially) cache issues, but I believe
we use the 2.4 driver "out of the box".  YMMV, of course.

            Kevin K.

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> Can anyone recommend some PCI 100 Mbit ethernet cards/drivers
> that work well with the 2.4 linux-mips kernel?

At MIPS, we use AMD PCnet32 cards pretty exclusively,
and with good success under both 2.2 and 2.4.  For 2.2,
we did a pretty thorough reworking of the driver to deal with 
MIPS endianness and (especially) cache issues, but I believe
we use the 2.4 driver "out of the box".  YMMV, of course.

            Kevin K.