Re: devices compatible list
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... Would appreciate a direct to a list of devices which are conmpatible with Debian. My particular interest at the moment is 3Com 509 vs 905 cards. The best source for that information is the kernel source. Incidentally, both of those cards are well supported by the Linux kernel. Personally, I would go with the 905; it's a PCI card thus is faster than the 509 (an ISA card), and (for me, at least) cost about the same. -- -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the universe. And I'm not sure about the universe. - Albert Einstein
Re: devices compatible list
I'll second that info about the PCI 905 card. It would be a much better investment... and it is faster than the ISA equiv... and it does work under Debian, I have that particular one myself. TaoX A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... Would appreciate a direct to a list of devices which are conmpatible with Debian. My particular interest at the moment is 3Com 509 vs 905 cards. The best source for that information is the kernel source. Incidentally, both of those cards are well supported by the Linux kernel. Personally, I would go with the 905; it's a PCI card thus is faster than the 509 (an ISA card), and (for me, at least) cost about the same. -- -- Phil Brutsche [EMAIL PROTECTED] There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the universe. And I'm not sure about the universe. - Albert Einstein -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: devices compatible list
On 2000-02-22 20:24:10, Bret Rice wrote: Would appreciate a direct to a list of devices which are conmpatible with Debian. My particular interest at the moment is 3Com 509 vs 905 cards. Got two 905 in my box and haven't noticed any problem. In the past, I think the Intel EtherExpress Pro were favored though. Might be worth exploring. /Allan -- Allan M. Wind Finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (GPG/PGP) P.O. Box 2022 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Woburn, MA 01888-0022 ICQ: 44214251 USA Phone: 781.279.4513
Re: devices compatible list
On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 11:58:50PM -0500, Allan M. Wind wrote: On 2000-02-22 20:24:10, Bret Rice wrote: Would appreciate a direct to a list of devices which are conmpatible with Debian. My particular interest at the moment is 3Com 509 vs 905 cards. Got two 905 in my box and haven't noticed any problem. In the past, I think the Intel EtherExpress Pro were favored though. Might be worth exploring. In my biased opinion EtherExpress Pros are pieces of crap and should be avoided at all costs. They constantly spew driver errors. I've locked up machines after shoving a lot of traffic through them. I do like the Netgear FA-310TX cards ... they're cheap but I've yet to make one puke. 3Com are ok but expensive. RTL8139 cards are cheap and perform ok though according to the driver source the physical design sucks. AMD makes a card that uses the pcnet32 driver (IBM uses these as onboard for the Netfinity line and also as their redundant NIC; I assume other people sell them too). Driver versions are important for this card as anything pre-2.2.13 would spew into the kernel log every now and again. My advice, get a Netgear or some other tulip-based card. -- Nathan NormanNetwork Magician, Eclectic Engineer GPG Key ID 1024D/51F98BB7 Eschew Obfuscation Key fingerprint = C5F4 A147 416C E0BF AB73 8BEF F0C8 255C 51F9 8BB7 pgpfcO4WP7AT5.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: devices compatible list
On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Bret Rice wrote: blsoas Would appreciate a direct to a list of devices which are conmpatible blsoas with Debian. My particular interest at the moment is 3Com 509 vs 905 blsoas cards. depends on the rev of card. all are fully supported but i have found the newest cards(3C905C) do not work well unless you update the driver manually. on my systems i had thousands of collisions with an older driver even though im on a switched network, and performance was crap. once i updated the driver it was great though. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By:http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMPhttp://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 10:10pm up 187 days, 10:30, 1 user, load average: 1.15, 1.08, 1.02
Re: devices compatible list
Allan == Allan M Wind [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Allan On 2000-02-22 20:24:10, Bret Rice wrote: Would appreciate a direct to a list of devices which are conmpatible with Debian. My particular interest at the moment is 3Com 509 vs 905 cards. Allan Got two 905 in my box and haven't noticed any problem. In Allan the past, I think the Intel EtherExpress Pro were favored Allan though. Might be worth exploring. Is EtherExpress Pro any better then EtherExpress? EtherExpress support seems unreliable (despite the help comment in Linux source) at best and often spews out warnings (2.2.x), IIRC about unexpected interrupts. I asked about this on the linux-kernel mailing list and was told problems were expected. Still, I have to admit it seems to work OK, but I don't particularly trust it either. -- Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: devices compatible list
On 2000-02-23 18:20:21, Brian May wrote: Allan == Allan M Wind [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is EtherExpress Pro any better then EtherExpress? EtherExpress support seems unreliable (despite the help comment in Linux source) at best and often spews out warnings (2.2.x), IIRC about unexpected interrupts. I asked about this on the linux-kernel mailing list and was told problems were expected. I don't know Brian. When I had spec out a couple of production quality machines (a year ago), I looked through mailing lists and choose the Intel EtherExpress Pro's over 3com 905 as the Intel NICs seemed to be the preferred ones at that point. As I said, I don't know if that is the case anymore and I do have two 905 myself. Not seem any problems but I am not pushing them either. /Allan -- Allan M. Wind Finger: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (GPG/PGP) P.O. Box 2022 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Woburn, MA 01888-0022 ICQ: 44214251 USA Phone: 781.279.4513
Re: devices compatible list
On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 11:58:50PM -0500, Allan M. Wind wrote: On 2000-02-22 20:24:10, Bret Rice wrote: Would appreciate a direct to a list of devices which are conmpatible with Debian. My particular interest at the moment is 3Com 509 vs 905 cards. Got two 905 in my box and haven't noticed any problem. In the past, I think the Intel EtherExpress Pro were favored though. Might be worth exploring. Had heard that the kernel 3c59x driver freezes the computer under some situation when used against 3c905C. Have not seen anything strange personally, but doesn't hurt to use the 3COM driver.. it's GPL'ed also. http://support.3com.com/infodeli/tools/nic/linux.htm
Re: devices compatible list
One of the best sources for this would be the Linux Documentation Project. One source is http://www.cc.gatech.edu/linux/LDP/. Have a look at the Hardware Compatibility HOW-TO. Also the Ethernet HOW-TO. Those documents contain links to other sites that will give you lots of info. Ernest Johanson Web Systems Administrator Fuller Theological Seminary On Tue, 22 Feb 2000, Bret Rice wrote: Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 20:24:10 -0800 From: Bret Rice [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: devices compatible list Would appreciate a direct to a list of devices which are conmpatible with Debian. My particular interest at the moment is 3Com 509 vs 905 cards. thanks for the info, Bret
