I was unclear. Ubuntu loves the Realtek (RTL8139.) I was laughing about the Netgear (FA310TX.) I have three of those so I'm glad to hear that they work. I had a problem with the FA310TX and FC2 a while back where it was taking 15 min for Samba to find the Windows shared file.
Recently I was telling my neighbor about my success with Ubuntu and his gamer friend stated matter-o-factly "Samba is historically spotty." O, now you tell me! These CS grad students have convinced me that my next computer will be a MAC laptop. I will get back to you on your "dmesg" recommendation, etcetera, with a printout. Bike Friday has an ad for a bike assembler the I have to apply for. I already have the final implementation hardware: ASUS AV7333 /w RAID support, dual 160GB seagate drives, etcetera. I had a hard drive crash a year ago and lost some data. That's what I get for buying Maxtor. As I head into my engineering education comic book development I don't want any problems. Brian -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Michael Miller Sent: Monday, March 13, 2006 6:28 PM To: Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] been out of touch 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 _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
