[plug] Linux Network Support

[Grahame Bowland]

On Fri, 2001-12-14 at 00:47, Trevor Phillips wrote:
> I'm looking at upgrading my Networking, and my Linux gateway has a 
> 10Mbps card, and I want to upgrade it to 100Mbps. There's a cheapo 
> Kingmax/Bromax NIC 10/100, but I can't find any tech info on it. Does 
> anyone know what chipset it has (and if it's supported by Linux)?
> 
> Similarly with a Netcomm 10/100. Anyone used it?
> 
> On a related topic, I'm also looking at 10/100 switches (preferrably 16 
> port). Again, the Kingmax comes in cheaper, but with hard to track down 
> stats, so anyone with experience who can fill me in would be good!! 
> (Basically, are they "cheap", or are they "inexpensive"...)

Get yourself a Netgear FA310TX, the Linux support is great and they're
very cheap these days; use the "tulip" driver.

Otherwise, 3COM NICs have always been good; we use lots of 3c59x cards
about the place; they've always worked fine. The Intel e100 network
cards are good, just don't use the Linux default driver, get the latest
version of the Intel kernel module (BSD licensed.)

Cheers,
Grahame

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