Well supported, reliable NICs for Redhat Linux/Fedora?

[Iain Rae]

Klaasjan Brand wrote:

>On Sat, 2003-11-15 at 05:27, DanG wrote:
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>>Hi folks,
>>            Can I get some people’s 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.
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>I'm currently using a 3c905 (rev b, combo version) with fedora without
>any problems. I'm wondering what "headaches" it's causing you.
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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. 
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AFAICR they're not very high performance cards either.


>I've had no problems with
>Intel and Digital cards.
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>Klaasjan
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