On Thu, Feb 21, 2002 at 10:48:02PM -0500, Jerry McBride wrote: >On Thu, 21 Feb 2002 17:59:32 -0800 Bill Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... >> LinkSys NICs have had a bad reputation for flakiness unless one uses >> Tulip drivers that are a bit different than what's in the standard >> kernels. This may well be out of date (e.g. 2.0.36 or so). I've had >> some problems with their PCMCIA NICs as well so just haven't used any >> LinkSys in the last couple of years. ... >If I may pop in here for a moment. Linksys NIC's, particularly LNE100TX >versions 4.0 to 4.2 are terrific when used with the tulip driver provided >in any later version 2.4.x kernel. One particularly neat thing about the >linksys NIC... When used with a Linksys switchbox like a EZXS88W (or >larger) and good cables, they'll do a 100bit duplex that's... well... >quite fast. Fast Ethernet really means something with this brand hardware.
I'm glad to hear this (which is why I prefaced my remarks that they could well be dated :-). I guess I can dust off the LinkSys cards I have in the back room. Anybody have a use for some SMC EISA NICs :-). I have a couple of shelves full of EISA NICs, SCSI cards, and an EISA Equinox multiport card if anybody is interested... Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ Bagdikian's Observation: Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's "St. Matthew Passion" on a ukelele. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
