Reader beware:
The linksys card challenge has been before enjoined, but
the pitfalls are numerous and the rewards dubious.
Many months ago I posted a question about how to get my
linksys EtherFast 10/100mbit PCI plug'n'pray card to work
with my linux. Through many agonizing hours of reading
installation instructions from linksys, resnet, and
Becker himself, I have arrived at nothing. That's not
to say that the driver hasn't been correctly installed,
it has, and that the card *isn't* working, as it talks in
windoze95, and my helful linux wizard friend and I got it
to communicate with his box once over spring break while
in linux.
No, nowadays if the UT network is temporarily down for a few
minutes to a few hours, my attempts to make my card work are
likely to blame, as my card wants to stay in 100Mbit mode and
therefore causes the network much distress, according to the
network admins who have contacted me (and have physically
disconnected my system when I left it running and left for a
few hours).
Additional info: I have upgraded recently to 2.2.1 kernel,
which actually allowed my card to speak with my friend's
computer over spring break. We had to configure a route to
his computer before the pinging would work, and we probably
did several other things which are lost to my memory now.
One important fact is that when we had it booting, an extra
line describing the card's status would appear that doesn't
appear now (and therefore I can't recall it). As it is now,
the tulip.c driver line comes up and then an eth0 ... irq
line comes up, which are correct and fine. But the problem
is that the card is not talking correctly with the network
again, and therefore it never gets to the point of doing the
dhcpcd thing. And it hangs the network.
I'm sending this mail from windows, using the same card and
the same resnet. I have heard from the resnet info page that
linksys cards are "notorious;" now I wish that whoever wrote
that page and/or knows that info would speak with me and help
me sort this out.
Before I go out this afternoon and get a nice, expensive, 3Com
or such. Any suggestions (including which new card to buy)
are appreciated. I know that after reading this, you must
be ready to rest your eyes and lie down, so I apologize for
the length.
--Chris Johnson
At this point, because I'm somewhat still
unfamiliar with linux, if someone who knows exactly what I'm
talking about or knows someone who does doesn't come out of
the woodwork, I need to just get a new card and move on in life.
Long live the linux revolution, where technical writers and
documenters are even more poorly paid than the programmers,
who work for free (and glory).
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