On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 11:20:48PM -0600, Jacob S. wrote: | Looking at the device compatability list on www.linux-usb.org it looks | like these adapters are supported fairly well. I was wondering though if | anyone has had any experience with them, good or bad, and what their | recommendation would be for purchasing a new one.
I have a LinkSys adapter that came with the setup package for my DSL connection. It uses the 'pegasus' driver. I once tested that it worked. Since all the machines with a PCI bus already have NICs, and the machines with only an ISA bus can't have USB anyways, I haven't used it beyond verifying that it was recognized. Depending on your setup, note that USB has a theoretical limit of 7Mbps (IIRC) (which is shared with your keyboard, mouse, printer, scanner, and whatever else you have in USB form) so using a USB<->Ethernet adapter will limit your network bandwidth. If it is only a bridge to a DSL or cable link, that link has an even lower theoretical limit so the point is moot. If you are building a LAN, however, you may not want that limitation. -D -- The nice thing about windoze is - it does not just crash, it displays a dialog box and lets you press 'ok' first. http://dman.ddts.net/~dman/
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