On 6/8/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Same here; my cheap-as-chips and old-as-methuselah 8139 works fine as > well-- in fact, it's the one thing I can count on working right if I go > distro-hopping, no matter where I wind up. > > However, you make a good point, Antoine... the driver that has always > worked perfectly for me is 8139too (I have a 8139 A-series). The newer > driver for the 8139 C+ (8139CP) gave me nothing but trouble, despite the > fact it's supposed to be backwards-compatible. Didn't seem so to > me. ...
a friend ended up helping with the hardware part, which was much simpler than I expected. we spent about half of the time figuring out how to get the case open ;) here's what I went with: <http://www.dlink.ca/product.php?PID=124> from <http://www.eglobalonline.com/ProductDetail.asp?id=342> which was only $9.98 canadian. once I actually got to the store it turned out that "compatible drivers include: Linux 2.2/2.4" is written right on the box :) so, I bought it for $9.98 canadian and am so far happy. tomorrow I hope to plug the VOIP telephone adapter into it :) thanks for help, all. it turned out to be a non-issue, but I was in a time crunch and need some info right away, thanks again. this NIC might be a sort of "win-modem" but at least it works, quite literally, right out of the box :) -Thufir -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
