On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 09:29:21 +0300 Reco <recovery...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi. > > On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 19:48:52 -0500 > Celejar <cele...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 19:44:19 +0300 > > Reco <recovery...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Hi. > > > > > > On Thu, 26 Feb 2015 08:37:30 -0800 > > > Pete Ley <peteley11...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Wouldn't you need a crossover cable to do that? > > > > > > Unless they installed really braindead 15-years old NICs at both > > > laptops - no, one does not need crossover cable. > > > Although, given the existence of some horrible companies like D-Link, > > > Trendnet and Ahteros (to name a few) - I won't be surprised. > > > > Atheros is a horrible company? I thought they were rather well > > regarded. > > Clearly you're lucky by not encountering anything that's using atl1c > kernel module. That card was the reason alone I use backported kernel > on my laptop, and it has some hiccups even then. > > And, back in the old days, stock Debian 2.6.18 suffered from the random > kernel panics then using atl1 kernel module. They fixed as far as I can > tell, but I have a good memory. Ah, okay - I know nothing about their wired products. I just know that their wireless hardware was, at least for a while, among the best supported under linux. > > And I've used a number of Trendnet products, and they've > > worked well for me - cheap, but did the job. > > Trendnet's unmanaged 1Gb switches actually manage to process whopping > 200 Mbps maximum. Heck, maybe they buy counterfeit ones where I work, > but somehow I doubt it. I only know their consumer switch / AP / routers. I never did serious benchmarking on them, but they performed about as well as I expected. > Reco Celejar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150227155504.c7429fb54f2de4166df18...@gmail.com