[lug] A-network-card-hunting.

[Bonnell, Doug]

I've had luck with the LinkSys "Network Anywhere" PCI cards. The tulip
driver
that came with the earlier cards didn't work with 2.2.14-5 kernel, but
recompiling
Becker's latest tulip driver got things working. 

I've also used these cards on Win98, WinNT, etc without troubles.

CompUSA has these for $20. I bought several at Office Depot when they were
on sale for $10.

Doug


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	bdoctor at ps-ax.com [SMTP:bdoctor at ps-ax.com]
> Sent:	Monday, October 30, 2000 11:00 PM
> To:	lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject:	Re: [lug] A-network-card-hunting.
> 
> I purchased two PCI Dlink cards from compusa - the $20 ones.  The chipset
> is 
> the RealTek RTL8139 - 
> 
> rtl8139.c:v1.04 9/22/98 Donald Becker
> http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/rtl8139.html
> eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xe800, IRQ 9, 00:50:ba:84:09:41.
> eth1: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xe400, IRQ 10, 00:50:ba:84:10:94.
> 
> With the 2.2.x kernels, I have been very pleased.  However, with the 2.4
> kernel (test8), the machine would lock up in panic mode very often.  I
> don't
> have a head on this machine, so I never actually saw the message, but with
> the
> 2.2.x series, it is rock solid.
> 
> Module                  Size  Used by
> rtl8139                11872   2 (autoclean)
> 
> 
> -brad
> 
> > 
> > Yet more hardware adventures.
> > 
> > I got a Netgear FA311 at CompUSA today because it said "Linux" on the
> > box.  Had I known better, I wouldn't have.  I'll be returning it
> > tomorrow.
> > 
> > Can somebody recommend a decent PCI network card for under $40 that I
> > could get somewhere locally (CompUSA would natually be convenient), is
> > supported in kernels newer than 2.0.36, and not likely to become
> > unsupported anytime soon?
> > 
> > Lessons learned: Just because it says "Linux" on the box doesn't mean
> > it's worth its weight in salt.  And it's only 90 grams.  Hrmph.
> > 
> > --
> > Chris Riddoch
> > socket at peakpeak.com
> > 
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