On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 10:52:21AM -0500, John Patton wrote: | On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 07:07:44AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | > In my ongoing effort to put a second NIC in my computer I have | > purchased a new NIC, an EtherFast 10/100 version 5. However, | > Linux or my box doesn't see the NIC enough to give it an IRQ | > number. Everything else seems in order when I pull up cat | > /proc/pci, except there is no IRQ number... I'm trying to use the | > tulip driver that came w/ the 2.4.9 kernel, tulip.c version | > 0.9.15-pre6 | | I've had one of the those cards before (my cable provider | issues them)... they are basically crap. Not only was I | never able to get it working under linux, but I've talked to | a couple of knowledgable people who couldn't do it either.
FYI, I have 2 LinkSys LNE100TX cards (different revisions though) and have been using one of them for several years without any trouble. The other one I got recently and have had no trouble with it. | My recomendation: Put that card in a windoze machine, a get | a slightly better card for you linux one. I use a D-link | DFE-538TX myself... it's only about $20 and works without a | hitch (indeed, it even comes with a linux driver in case | the one with your kernel doesn't work). The LinkSys cards come with a Linux driver (on the floppy in the box) and they have instructions on their web site (at least they did a few years ago when I was looking for a card). I consider both the LinkSys and D-Link cards to be good cards. It is possible, however, that rev5 of the Linksys card changed something incompatibly which is causing it to malfunction. -D
