Well supported, reliable NICs for Redhat Linux/Fedora?

[DanG]

Yes the problem I have is with my 3c905-TX card which is revision A. If
Kudzu is on at boot time the card does not initialize (though it worked
great from RH 7-9). I have quite a few posts in bugzilla about it and
workarounds. The issue has not been resolved yet with Kudzu and I wanted
another card that I could use the machine for NAT/Firewall for my network. I
bought a new Realtek 8139C chipset based card. It has a one year warranty.
Works like a charm not bad for $6 US :-). Thanks for everyone's input.

 

                                                            Dan

 

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From: fedora-test-list-admin at redhat.com
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Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 10:58 AM
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Subject: Re: Well supported, reliable NICs for Redhat Linux/Fedora?

 

I have not had any kind of problems with 3COM, D-Link or Realtek, they all
do the same job even if the cost is $15.00 or $300.00 as long as they are
10/100 they work fine with

any Linux, even the Asustek or Nvidia 3Com works fine with me. The new Intel

10/100/1000 are more expensive and the transmission is 10/100 only until
now. There

are a lot of technologies in the market that we do not need, they just
complicate our 

life more, it is like SATA hard drives,  I prefer SCSI hard drives. Some 3
com 905 network

card they boot by itself in some types of motherboards, I have inserted it
on a 64bit pci

slot and it works fine, on an NVidia chipset motherboard it wont boot by
itself, but it

will boot on an SIS chipset motherboard. In some motherboard it makes cycle,
but they

are very good and there are always drivers for them.

Eric Barnes <ebarnes at rationalsystemsupport.com> wrote:

Someone on the fedora-list has the same problem. Something to do with kudzu
I think. Look in that list instead of this test-list. Sorry I couldn't be
of more help.

On 11/16/03 7:40 AM, "Iain Rae" wrote:

> Klaasjan Brand wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 05:27, DanG wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> Hi folks,
>>> Can I get some people9s recommendations on PCI/PNP network
>>> cards that run very stable under Linux 2.4. I hear the Intel 10/100
>>> eepro based cards are good but are a little more costly. What about
>>> D-Link, Realtek, Linksys etc for $10-15 cards. I am only looking for
>>> 10/100 Mbit cards. Do not even begin to recommend 3com 905 based cards
>>> which is the cause of my headaches currently with Fedora J.
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> I'm currently using a 3c905 (rev b, combo version) with fedora without
>> any problems. I'm wondering what "headaches" it's causing you.
>> 
>> 
> see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=98767
> 
> 
> basically the cards lock up when kudzu is run during the boot process
> and the machine has to be power-cycled to get them back into a working
> condition. It seems to be limited to the 905, the B's and C's seem to
> work fine, also the 905's themselves seem to work fine with the 2.6
kernel.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I've kind of worked round the problem, my work has just thrown out a
> bunch of PC's with 905b's in them and I retrieved the cards from the
> dustbin,
> 
> 
>> The Realtek cards are ok, but a bit broken by design (the driver works
>> around that, but don't be surprised when your! logs show "hanging
>> transceiver reset" or other vague messages.
>> 
> 
> AFAICR they're not very high performance cards either.
> 
> 
>> I've had no problems with
>> Intel and Digital cards.
>> 
>> Klaasjan
>> 
>> 
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