Can't speak to the 486's as I just donated my last one to the AZ Strut program.  My e-Smith is running on a 333 Celeron with 2 10/100 Hawking Technology PCI NICS in it.  These are what I bought for $9.90 each at Fry's and is the same brand as my hub.  So far it is running on my Qwest VDSL system with no problems.  All my internal network machines are accessing the internet fine.  I can access email from 4 different email servers using the standard ports.  I downloaded some RPM's from a RH mirror at Michigan State University yesterday using FTP and had a rate between 925 and 975 KB/sec reported so it doesn't look like anything has slowed down.  A day after I turned on the e-Smith I checked the ZoneAlarm on my internal machines and the logs only showed the "keep alive" pings from my NT server after e-Smith went up.  This allowed me to remove all the individual firewalls too.

-----Original Message-----
From: Craig White [mailto:craigwhite@azapple.com]
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 1:31 PM
To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Subject: Re: Using 486 PCI Slots


Steven Martindale wrote:
> 
> At 06:22 AM 12/31/01 -0700, you wrote:
> >Tom Achtenberg wrote:
> >>
> >> I'm very happy with my e-smith.  Only problem I see you maybe having is the
> >> old 3com cards.  e-smith and all the others I checked out required PCI
> cards.
> >>  I bought a couple of cheap $10 ones at Fry's and it is working fine.
> >>
> >----
> >don't recall any 486's having PCI slots but my memory has this habit of
> >failing me at odd moments.
> 
> Looks like three PCI slots. In fact the video card is in one of them.
> 
> Which raises a question. I may well just simply try it since the cards are
> so cheap. It seems all the PCI USB cards say you need a pentium or better,
> but then again they say you need Windows 98 or newer as well and linux was
> perfectly happy spotting the USB card in my celeron box. Anyone know if
> those USB cards really need a pentium, or are the manufacturers just
> figuring "Well, 98 won't run well on a 486 anyway..."
----
Actually...

Only rev B of Win95 supported USB and the implementation was less than
ideal and no one really wants to support USB on Windows 95 at this
point. 

Also - a celeron is a Pentium with reduced cache - a sort of crippleware
which allowed them to be competivite in the marketplace with the
K6-2/Duron without creaming their profitable Pentium II/III/IV product
line profits.

Craig
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