Ghetto computing is nothing to laugh about. I think most of us still or used to get pieces of hardware out of the dumpster and or garbage. I don't have very much experience with Realtek NIC cards I tend to stick to Intel, 3COM 3C905X, BroadComm, Linksys and Netgear. I have never had any hard problems getting these cards to work. You might try looking at your "dmesg" output and or /var/log/messages or /var/log/syslog or /var/adm/syslog or /var/adm/messages or what ever directory and or file your syslogd outputs messages to. That being said you might see if someone out there is supporting RealTek NIC cards and send them a "lspci" output with what ever switches they may or may not ask you to use. Then there is always my warning to people that practice ghetto computing. That is "What you may find may or may not work so don't put it or use it in a system that you don't care about. I.E. It might blow up in your face so don't use it unless you don't give a **** about it.".
My $0.02 cents. Michael Miller On 3/13/06, Brian Gallagher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I apologize in advance for this email sent from a Win9x/Outlook box. > > Been out of touch...off in hardware hell (MS-6309, MS-6380.) Obsessive > hardware noodling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noodling and a complete lack > of respect for process documentation was my crime! > > Fortuitously, A couple of PCChips SiS530's fell off the trash truck so I > decided to build a separate Linux experimental network. Don't laugh...on > board Realtek NIC vs. Netgear PCI NIC's. This led to an Ubuntu 5.1 upgrade > which solved much of my problems. Now, on to the Wireless network. > > Used to email through a dialup, but I'm on broadband now, hence the flaky > email. I checked out Ubuntu's networking Wiki, but I haven't had much luck > with an out of the box solution. I've been playing with a D-Link DWL G510 > PCI NIC. Strong signal, but poor assumption, plus a defective card > (replaced.) It all comes down to chipsets. I purchased a D-Link DWL G120 > USB NIC and a DWL G122 USB NIC to expand my wireless. USB flash drive is > found by Ubuntu, but the NIC is not, could easily be "I don't know what I'm > looking for." There seems to be plethora of Rev. # on the manufacturer's > labels and I'm too chickensh*t to open up these cards, but if I have too I > will. I would probably just buy a new card that is guaranteed to work > (operator headspace aside.) I am looking for recommendations. > > Brian > > > > > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
