Re: [expert] Network card compatibility?

2000-09-25 Thread Buchan Milne
Sarang Lakare wrote: > [snip] > > In (2), Linux simply rocks!!! I stress this again.. you don't have to do > _anything_ to get tcp/ip.. + u don't need the crap of NetBUI and WINS!.. > All you need to do is setup u're IP, DNS etc. etc.. address and you are > done.. (No rebooting either) On a d

RE: [expert] Network card compatibility?

2000-09-23 Thread Zaleski, Matthew (M.E.)
TED] > Subject: Re: [expert] Network card compatibility? > > > Hi, > > On the same topic, I am wondering can I have 2 Linksys crads > on the same > system to use my system as a router. I presume there will be > IRQ conflicts(I > dunno). Can anyone clarify this. >

Re: [expert] Network card compatibility?

2000-09-23 Thread Sarang Lakare
> That's if you have everything you need and know exactly what to do. There are two cases here.. 1. needing to know how to install a card .. 2. needing to know to get networking started. In (1), Linux still lacks coz h/w vendors don't give out drivers.. thats why I say check the supported card d

Re: [expert] Network card compatibility?

2000-09-23 Thread Charles Curley
On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 07:46:55PM -0700, Sridhar Govindarajulu wrote: > Hi, > > On the same topic, I am wondering can I have 2 Linksys crads on the same > system to use my system as a router. I presume there will be IRQ conflicts(I > dunno). Can anyone clarify this. If they are PCI cards, and c

Re: [expert] Network card compatibility?

2000-09-23 Thread Gavin Clark
on 9/22/00 4:34 PM, Sarang Lakare wrote: >> Say what you want but when it comes to spending 6 to 8 hours in just getting >> a network card >> to work, I will always go with the OS that allows me to not only see the dang >> netword card >> but to set up TCP/IP, DNS, NetBUI, WINS, and DHCP, and do

RE: [expert] Network card compatibility?

2000-09-23 Thread Makis Marmaridis
MAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Daniel Woods > Sent: Saturday, 23 September 2000 12:46 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [expert] Network card compatibility? > > > > > > I've got to agree whole heartedly on this one. > > I bought two linksys cards because th

Re: [expert] Network card compatibility?

2000-09-22 Thread Sridhar Govindarajulu
Hi, On the same topic, I am wondering can I have 2 Linksys crads on the same system to use my system as a router. I presume there will be IRQ conflicts(I dunno). Can anyone clarify this. Cheers Sridhar Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing l

Re: [expert] Network card compatibility?

2000-09-22 Thread AOLShopGAM
In both my Linux boxes running Mandrake 7.1 I use 3 Linksys FA310TX cards. Th ey run great. The Installer found and set them up no problem. Jerry << I've got to agree whole heartedly on this one. I bought two linksys cards because they had linux stickers all over them. It said on the box that

Re: [expert] Network card compatibility?

2000-09-22 Thread Daniel Woods
> > I've got to agree whole heartedly on this one. > I bought two linksys cards because they had linux stickers > all over them. It said on the box that it supported linux. > When I open the box, I change to the linux directory and I > read the notice that linksys doesn't support linux or what

Re: [expert] Network card compatibility?

2000-09-22 Thread Ron Marriage
I've got to agree whole heartedly on this one. I bought two linksys cards because they had linux stickers all over them. It said on the box that it supported linux. When I open the box, I change to the linux directory and I read the notice that linksys doesn't support linux or what they refer t

Re: [expert] Network card compatibility?

2000-09-22 Thread Sarang Lakare
> Say what you want but when it comes to spending 6 to 8 hours in just getting a >network card > to work, I will always go with the OS that allows me to not only see the dang >netword card > but to set up TCP/IP, DNS, NetBUI, WINS, and DHCP, and do all of this in less than >an hour. > This time

Re: [expert] Network card compatibility?

2000-09-22 Thread Alain
> Yup, I am using several 3Com 905x cards here.. > What I had to do on a couple of them was download the 3Com DOS drivers > and install on another hdd (you may have a DOS or win partition saving you > this step) and (a) turn off the Plug 'n' Pray, (b) set the card's IRQ. > I then put it banc in

Re: [expert] Network card compatibility?

2000-09-22 Thread Craig Woods
VERY INTERESTING, I also have the Linksys PCMCIA ethernet card on my laptop, and it will not work in V7.1. I have tried the re-compiling method proposed by Gavin, and it will not compile without giving me a plethora of errors. This is why all my machines are dual boot with NT OS's. NT is the on

Re: [expert] Network card compatibility?

2000-09-22 Thread Ken Thompson
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, you wrote: > > I can't seem to get my old 3com Etherlink III 3c509b ISA combo PnP card to > work. Has anyone managed? I also have a Linksys EtherFast 10/100 LNE100TX > v4.1 that I'm going to try. Has anyone gotten that one to work? It is > supposed to be Linux compat but hasn

Re: [expert] Network card compatibility?

2000-09-22 Thread Gavin Clark
see my posts in the archive. subject: linksys etherfast 10/100 card - solved see if my solution works for you. Gavin on 9/22/00 12:36 AM, Michael wrote: > Well I bought a stack of these cards as we are setting up a lot of new > machines and they were $20 each and I've had good luck with Li

Re: [expert] Network card compatibility?

2000-09-22 Thread turgut kalfaoglu
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000 01:38:08 -0500, Craig Woods wrote: >The Linksys takes a driver called tulip, and the trick is to get the right >version for your card. There several Linksys chips, and several versions of Interesting. I have Linksys PCMCIA ethernet card on my laptop (which has Mandrake 7.1) an

Re: [expert] Network card compatibility?

2000-09-22 Thread Michael
Well I bought a stack of these cards as we are setting up a lot of new machines and they were $20 each and I've had good luck with Linksys before.. they are also stamped Linux tested. Unfortunately they came with very little in the way of sueful documentation and thus far none of them have worked

Re: [expert] Network card compatibility?

2000-09-21 Thread Gavin Clark
on 9/21/00 11:06 PM, Michael wrote: > I also have a Linksys EtherFast 10/100 LNE100TX > v4.1 that I'm going to try. Has anyone gotten that one to work? it works fine, BUT... you have to get and compile the latest tulip driver. My earlier posts on this subject may save you some time. Gavin >

Re: [expert] Network card compatibility?

2000-09-21 Thread Craig Woods
Michael, The Linksys takes a driver called tulip, and the trick is to get the right version for your card. There several Linksys chips, and several versions of the tulip out there. The driver must match your chip. You might have to complile the tulip for your system. I have the Linksys running ve

[expert] Network card compatibility?

2000-09-21 Thread Michael
I can't seem to get my old 3com Etherlink III 3c509b ISA combo PnP card to work. Has anyone managed? I also have a Linksys EtherFast 10/100 LNE100TX v4.1 that I'm going to try. Has anyone gotten that one to work? It is supposed to be Linux compat but hasn't worked on any of my SuSE or RedHat machi