advice needed regarding OS & Hardware.

[Wojciech Puchar]

>
> From my own experience:
> Realtek pci 1000 8169 re0 work fine and are stable. The TrendNet brand has 
> corrected the previous issues with the on board cards.
> These 8169 cards are plug in pci that work fine (not on board).
possibly newer (fixed) chip revision.
100Mbit/s realteks now are all fine too, after long long time since first 
were made.