On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, William R. McDonough wrote:
> Subject: [linux-usb] NetGear EA101
..
> Becker didn't seem to keen on writing one.
My sentiment was "someone else already has dibs on writing it". I'm always
willing to let someone experience the support email and continuing workload
that writing a driver entails.
> If we get a driver for linux for this. This is the cheapest USB nic out
> there.
There are other designs out there in the same $30-40 price range. The
ADMtek Pegasus allows 10/100 and full duplex. (Note that USB can't even
saturate 10baseT-HDX, but 10/100 means you can talk to a 100Mbps repeater.)
The CATC Netmate allows chaining packets together for better performance.
Neither requires firmware to be downloaded, which means you are more likely
to see e.g. a boot floppy with a Pegasus or CATC driver.
> I also found NetGear support useless. One of their techs even told me
> "this is a propriatary chipset". ahhahahahahah
> No, it's a Kawasaki chipset used by many other vendors.
Pretty common. For instance, 3Com never admit it when their internal design
team fails, compelling them to deliver relabeled OEM products.
Donald Becker
Scyld Computing Corporation, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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