Scott Long wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > Donald has recorded a sampling of some of the boards which work with his
> > drivers on the each driver web page, at http://www.scyld.com/network/
> > Since I particularly favor eepro100[1] and tulip chipsets, especially
> > tulips, hunt around for boards which use that driver. People seem to
> > report that the 21140-based Tulip boards are particularly stable, and
> > the PNIC boards (such as NetGear) are particularly unstable.[2]
> I have to say I disagree on this. We've been using the NetGear boards
> almost exclusively for over a year at my site, and they have NEVER given
> us problems. I have occasionally had problems with the NetGear cards
> when they are on a network with Win98 hosts. The driver would choke, but
> unloading and reloading the Tulip module would always solve the problem.
If a driver "chokes" at all, I consider that particularly unstable :)
Regardless of how easy it is to recover...
Jeff
--
Jeff Garzik |
Building 1024 | Free beer tomorrow.
MandrakeSoft, Inc. |
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in
the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
