On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 09:34:58AM +1000, Brad Thomson wrote: > I'd also be interested in hearing from anyone who's gotten one of these > cards working in a stable manner. > Unless you are planning to use them under windows I would have to say don't touch them. We used to use them on our servers and they all worked fine for a while but then we started to have a variety of problems.
First of all the drivers are binary only and are really really buggy. The first lot of drivers we used didn't increment the number of Rx bytes so we coudln't do traffic counting. Also if you did an ifconfig down after giving he card an ip address the whole box would kernel panic. I used to have to reboot -f boxes remotely. Having a binary driver for this thing is a real pain. They fixed these problems eventually. Then Telstra changed soemthing in their ADSL network. On existing connections things work fine. But on newly provisioned connections these cards will not work under Linux with pppoe. Without source its impossible to work out why. The only place where we haven't had problems with these cards is using them in a bridged ethernet mode. ie IP over Ethernet over ATM as opposed to pppoe. This is usually only offered by people doing static IPs. I'm about to evaluate an ADSL card made by traverse. Which supposedly has source code. I'll mail back with my findings. -- John http://www.inodes.org/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
