[svlug] Eth missing? - catch22

[Karl F. Larsen]

	It's nice to hear that netcard makers are at least putting
something of the Linux world on their cd-rom's now. I recall my much
earlier experiance where there was nothing Linux about the card and a
request to the maker got a "Linux? what is that?".

	You got a driver written for the old library set and it's not easy
to know that. I have had some luck loading 2.0.36 and compiling and then
running the binary in 2.2.12. Sometimes it works.


On Tue, 26 Sep 2000, Alvin Oga wrote:

> > On Tue, 26 Sep 2000 19:50:04 -0400 (EDT) 
> > Bill Jonas <bj at netaxs.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, J C Lawrence wrote:
> > >> I recently picked up a set of Tulip bnased Netgear cards at
> > >> Central Computer for ~$20ea ($24?).  Good cards.
> > 
> > > Make sure you get the FA310TX.  The store I went to buy mine at
> > > over the weekend didn't have them, so I got the FA312.  The box
> > > said "Linux Supported," no problem, right?
> > 
> > > Wrong.  The driver that they had (at least they included source)
> > > didn't compile and gave screenful after screenful of errors.  I
> > > looked at the source comments and discovered it was for
> > > 2.0.thirty-something.  I promptly took it back and got a LinkSys
> > > EtherFast LNE100TX.  (I think that buy.com has the FA310TXs; I was
> > > browsing their site for 100Mbit switches and seem to recall seeing
> > > them.)
> > 
> > The only thing I've had this pattern fail with are some cheapo SMC
> > cards.
> > 
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