hello (the other nate) i have one of those cards as well, and it works great in linux, just make sure to use a recent kernel or you will have to manually update the driver.
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/rtl8139.html There are too many vendors selling RTL8139 boards to list them all. The RTL8139 and RTL8139A chips have the ability to load a different PCI Vendor and Device ID from the EEPROM. Combined with a unique chip label, some boards give the appearance of being new and unique chips. Identified chips that fall into this category are Accton MPX5030 series (relabeled RTL8139) SMC 1211TX (relabeled RTL8139) only his newer drivers can see the relabled chips.. one weird thing, i have a 3COM 3C905B that _refuses_ to work with a linksys 10/100 switch, today i swapped it for a 3COM 3C905C and it appears to work fine! wtf! damn 3com.. nate On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Nate Duehr wrote: nate >Ahh! Good! nate > nate >You've made me a very happy man today. I'll go home and put it in my nate >system tonight! nate > nate >Now to see if it's compatible with the various other OS's installed on nate >that box! nate > nate >Thanks for the heads-up! nate > nate >On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 02:30:46PM -0800, Bruce Mobarry wrote: nate >> Hi Nate, nate >> nate >> I have exactly this card in my computer. I first tried to get it nate >> working under slink with Linux 2.0.36 compilied as a loadable module, nate >> but failed. I compiled it (using the RTL8139 chipset driver from Donald nate >> Becker) directly into a 2.2.13 kernel successfully and am running my SMC nate >> EzCard 10/100 under potato. I am on a 10baseT net also. nate >> nate >> Bruce Mobarry nate >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] nate > nate >-- nate >Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> nate > nate >GPG Key fingerprint = DCAF 2B9D CC9B 96FA 7A6D AAF4 2D61 77C5 7ECE C1D2 nate >Public Key available upon request, or at wwwkeys.pgp.net and others. nate > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 8:47pm up 137 days, 8:43, 4 users, load average: 1.71, 1.59, 1.55
