Re: I have a question about networking

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

0 wrote:
> 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.

"Cheap" does not equate to "bad" in every case.  Sometimes, but not all.
I have some truly ancient NE2000 clone cards running 10Base2 (Egad!
Thinwire!) still.  They cost about $4 US (1.5 pounds sterling) back
8 years ago.  Yes, they still work.  No, I don't intend to deploy
thinwire (or thickwire) again (you gotta work with what's there).
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