I would never recommend another network card...  this card was perfectly detected by 2 verisons of Linux I have, as well as a copy of UNIX without any installation.  The card is extremely reliable and my company has bought  20 without any problems, especially good for retail machines like COMPAQ's.  PCI card requires no assigning IRQ's.  Fast 100Mbps, and great support.  Comes with a driver disk with any driver for any OS.  Fully supported in  Win2k as well...  even better than the classic NE2000!