On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 04:20:18PM -0700, Bryan Carpenter wrote: | I'm a newbie asking for help as to which network | card to buy that will "just be seen" by a standard | Debian 2.2.17 install. I've tried a Netgear FA312 | and a Linksys LNE100TX rev. 4.1, but neither seems | to be easy to set up. I did try getting the "tulip" | driver from scyld.com, but it seems to require munging | to compile and use. I'm willing to spend money to get a
I have the Linksys card and have had no trouble with it at all. The tulip driver should already be compiled as a module. # add this line to /etc/modules.conf alias eth0 tulip Better than putting that in modules.conf, put it in /etc/modutils/aliases and run update-modules. I would highly recommend the Linksys card since it has worked so well for me out-of-the-box and is only $24 US. (compare to 3Com at ~ $90 US). It even comes with the driver (tulip.c) on the floppy in the package. I didn't have any trouble compiling it -- the first time I tried I didn't understand modules so I built it statically. The standard kernel source dist has tulip.c in it, I simply copied the newer one from the disk to the source tree and rebuilt. -D