The Intel EtherExpress cards are good.  That's mainly what we use at
work (where we buy the good stuff), along with some recent 3COM cards.

For home use, I've been buying D-Link cards, and they've worked well for
me (as far as I've noticed).  At $20 or so, you even get wake-on-LAN.

But if you have the cash, I'd go for the Intels.

-BVG

Mark Berkwitt wrote:
> 
> 
>  I have 2 PCs and would like to set up a network at home.
> 
>  I have a 3com etherlink (ISA) I've been using for a while and 2 other
>  PCI NICs, sitting unused, based on the
>  RealTek 8029 chipset.  Currently, the 3com is used with my cable-modem.
>  I tried installing either of the 8029 NICs and upon booting made my
>  win98 partition unstable.  Each time I would boot I would get about as
>  far as the login window and soon after the machine would reboot.  I
> took
>  them out and then had to search for new hardware in w98 to get my 3com
>  nic to work again.  I suppose if I'm determined to create this network
>  I'd better buy 2 new nics that won't fight eachother.
>  Any you would recommend???
> 
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