On Thursday 21 February 2002 20:26, Bill Greenwood wrote: > thanks for the effort, but I had given up and bought a new > network card, and now I don't have a problem, as it uses differen't > drivers.
Oddly enough, I'm trialling a (Mandrake 8.1) Linux workstation at a local business on a machine with a built-in network card (Intel EtherExpress Pro 100, not via-rhine, which arrive here labelled d-Link). Under Windows, the network would crap out after a day or so's mucking around, so they disabled the built-in LAN interface and installed a separate eepro100 card, which worked more or less fine. Mdk8.1 (with the built-in LAN still disabled!) finds and uses the internal LAN and hasn't wavered yet. I removed the separate LAN card and they're trying out Linux + StarOffice 5.2 + Mozilla + Konsole to replace MS-Whingedows 98 + MS-Orifice 97 + MS-Exploder + MS-Lookout (here comes another virus) + a proprietary terminal emulator on that box. So far, so good. Cheers; Leon
