[KLUG Members] Linksys NICs

[Jamie McCarthy]

john@bridleman.org (John Bridleman) writes:

> Check out this archived post from Jamie. He was having problems
> with a Linksys card and Linksys hub. Totally weird.
> http://www.kalamazoolinux.org/mailarchive/0007/msg00211.html

Just the hub was Linksys;  the "card" in question was actually on
my Mac G4's motherboard.  :)

I agree that Linksys' policy of releasing totally new chipsets under
the same model number is pretty stupid.  But they did replace the
hub with no fuss, and its replacement has worked flawlessly since.

By now, any NIC you buy new is plug-and-play with Linux anyway, and
they're so cheap it's silly to buy used.  I just read the other day
that OpenBSD is saturating a 100baseT line both directions at about
60% CPU usage, on a 600 MHz system, so it's not like a driver that's
a few percent less optimized is a huge deal either.  The only reason
I'd pay attention to which card I'm getting, is if I'm putting two
in a single machine (I'd get 2 of the same model on general
principles) or if it's going into a much older machine that has to
run an early (2.0.x) kernel with not many drivers.
--
 Jamie McCarthy
 jamie@mccarthy.vg