In both my Linux boxes running Mandrake 7.1 I use 3 Linksys FA310TX cards. Th ey run great. The Installer found and set them up no problem. Jerry << I've got to agree whole heartedly on this one. I bought two linksys cards because they had linux stickers all over them. It said on the box that it supported linux. When I open the box, I change to the linux directory and I read the notice that linksys doesn't support linux or what they refer to as other free operating systems. I spent days trying to get them to work, compiled and recompliled, downloaded files and finally gaveup. Went back to the shop, traided them for two other $20 network cards and setup networking in about 15 minutes. Next day I set up samba to provide windows support. Next time I get HW I will make sure the company just doesn't support linux stickers, but actually provides some support. Ron On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Sarang Lakare wrote: > > > One hour?? My observations differ.. you can do all that and more in less > than a few minutes on Linux.. no need to play with TCP/IP, NetBUI, WINS > etc. etc.. > > About the ethernet card, look at the h/w database b4 you buy somethign.. if > you had any 3COM card, that wouldnt' have been a problem.. dont' blame > linux for not providing drivers, blame the h/w vendors.. people around the > world are trying their best to get all possible h/w to work in linux.. > please learn to appreciate that first. Its not like NT/2000 for which the > h/w vendors are dying to provide support.. no matter how crappy!! > > -sarang > -- Ron Marriage Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage http://www.seidata.com/~marriage/ >>
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