Yes, the USB does limit the speed of the connection. But there are many
100Mbit USB ethernet cards out there. Probably has better compatibility
for places where they only have 100Mbit hubs or something. Anyway, only
the Linksys 100TX is known to work. I've heard suggestions not to use the
10Mbit version. I got one for $40 at Frys.
John Kim
Linux System Engineer @ ASL - visit us as www.aslab.com
On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Jean-Louis Debert wrote:
> "John D. Kim" wrote:
> >
> > The kernel has some USB support, but it is very outdated. You can
> > download a backport of usb from kernel 2.3.50 to 2.2.14. I got myself a
> > Linksys 100TX for my iopener. Haven't had a chance to play with it yet,
> > though... The backport can be downloaded from...lets see if I can find
> > it...
>
> Just a minute, please ... "100TX" seems to apply to a 100Mbit NIC, no
> ???
>
> Isn't USB limited to 12 Mbit anyway ??? (until USB 2.0 which is not
> yet
> implemented on current motherboards AFAIK).
>
> --
> Jean-Louis Debert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 74 Annemasse France
> old Linux fan
>
