Re: I have a question about networking

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

tyche wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 September 2003 07:01, NfoCipher wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 01:45, Kyunghwan Choi wrote:
> >
> > > My linux is Red Hat Linux 9.0, and my network card is
> > > microsoft mn-130. I have a cable connection, and I
> > > don't know how I should be able to get the internet
> > > working with my Linux system. I think I'll love using
> > > Linux from now on if I can get my internet connection
> > > working. Thanks.
> >
> > Microsoft nic not working under Linux. Think about that one for a
> > second.
> > Go out and buy a $5 kingston,SMC,linksys, generic or something and save
> > yourself time and effort.
>
>
> try dlink, some of their nics actually come with linux drivers, or realtek. 
> realtek i have never had a problem with. (got one here that must be 10 years 
> old now and still works).

Most MS NICs are really Intel NICs in disguise.  If you "lspci -v", you
will probably see the card show up.

However, as tyche says, D-Link, Linksys, Intel, SMC, NetPro, Broadcom
and most others work just peachy.

One word of caution:  Don't get a NIC that is based on a Texas
Instruments chipset (D-Link's "+" series, for example).  TI has not and
apparently will not (stupid as that is) release the APIs for their
chipsets and therefore have locked themselves out of the Open
Software/GNU/Linux market.

TI once again shoots themselves in the foot.
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