Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-11-13 07:12:18 -0600]: > We are looking at setting up a dedicated box for a client and on of our > vendors sells white boxes with a Athlon AMD processor 1200 + and the mother > board is a SiS, with a Realtek built-in NIC card, which I would be willing > to kill and use a 3-Com.
I have several similar configurations. Should work fine. The Realtek is probably fine. But note that it is compiled into the bf24 kernel but not into at least some of the optimized kernels. For example I know that in the Debian k6/k7 kernel it is a module. While being automatically detected during an install it must be manually loaded when doing an upgrade. Therefore moving from the 2.4.18-bf24 install kernel to the optimized 2.4.18-k7 kernel will lose your network driver! You have to put the module in /etc/modules at that time in order to load it with the optimized kernel. This has led to some frustrating moments when this is not known and some fud about it being bad. Compare this to if you had installed on a tulip driver card then you would have needed to select it at install time and that would have carried over. Not really the card's fault, just the choice of including it in the install kernel but not the optimized kernel. Also, modconf does not know about it, that I know of, and therefore this is definitely a manual step and that is sometimes more than people can handle. Bob
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