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Re: I have a question about networking



Rick Stevens wrote:

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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In a period of financial crisis, I got a £4 (and alarmingly small) unbranded sis900 clone NIC from ebay - turns out to be about the most reliable piece of equiptment in the whole machine...ne'er a problem in windows or linux.

Stu C




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