<DISCLAIMER>I own one of these Linksys Adapters and it works fine, although
I have a static IP</DISCLAIMER>
I think the point that the first poster was making is that the driver doco
explicitly states that there is an issue. So his point to avoid the tulip
(10/100 Linksys) board is valid. Hardware is worthless without a set of
good drivers.
Larry, if you work at Linksys, perhaps you could pressure DEC (or whomever
makes the chips) to give more/better doco to the Linux developers to solve
this issue. IMHO, given that I've been in the Linux community for a few
years, I think it's safe to say that persistantly unstable Linux drivers
tend to be caused by the Hardware makers not providing good documentation.
I'm not picking on Linksys because I own several Linksys networking products
and I've had good experiences with them.
Matt
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Sword [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Careful with the Linksys 10/100 under Linux, or any 10/100
> NIC with a "PNIC" Chip. I've been to the website of the
> writer about two months ago, and discovered this little note:
> >
> > "Due to the lack? of documentation on the PNIC chip, autosensing
> > the network" is/was not a feature of the driver the author
> could provide.
> >
>
> IAW Linksys:
>
> COMPATABILITY NOTE: Linksys regularly tests its network
> adapters with Li nux, and finds that the adapters work well
> in our testing lab. However, Linux software drivers for Linksys
> network
> adapters are developed independently by third-party
> developers who support the
> Linux open source philosophy. Linksys is not responsible for
> guaranteeing the
> compatibility of its adapters with Linux, since it does not
> control how or
> by whom network drivers are developed.
>
>
