[KLUG Members] Linksys NICs

[Christopher David Pruden]

On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, Richard Zimmerman wrote:

> > I noticed several people have spoke out against Linksys NICs.  Am I
> > missing something?
> 
>    Nope...
> 
> > I have several versions, from the LNE100TX 2.0, 2.1 and 4.1 to the
> > [Network Everywhere] NC100 2.1 and have had 0 problems with Linux.
> > At most I had to download and compile the Becker/Scyld drivers for
> > the newer Centaur 985 chips on older kernels, but other than that I
> > have had 0 issues.
> 
>    I also have not had *ANY* problems with the LNE100TX on RH 7.0+
> 
I had a bit of trouble with these cards at first, and if I remember
right, the problem was (at the time, anyways--think it was around kernel
2.0.35) that the driver(tulip) would support all of the different chipsets(at
the time) but not at the same time in the same machine.  So, if you had
two cards with the same chipset, or just one with any of the chipsets,
you were okay.  If you had two cards with different chipsets, no go.

It would have been really nice if they would have used a different model
name or even just a revision number for the different chipsets, though.

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Christopher Pruden                              [cdpruden@cs.wmich.edu]    
              [WMU Computer Science Department - Systems Administrator] 
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