[plug] Linux Network Support

[Adam Davin]

Hello Again,

The only issues I can think of which I ran into with my Netgear 310tx was
that due to the fact that it *didn't* have a rom slot for a boot rom, I was
unable to use it to remote boot (even using a floppy rom). Not of great
significance, however something to be aware of if you decide to play with
any remote booting (Took me a couple of hours to figure out why my other
machines were working and this one was crashing as soon as the card was
initialised...)

Personally I use realtek 8139 and cnet pro200b and don't have any problems
(the latter uses the dm9102 module).

HTH

Adam Davin.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: skribe [mailto:skribe at amber.com.au]
> Sent: Friday, 14 December 2001 9:06 AM
> To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject: Re: [plug] Linux Network Support
>
>
> On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 08:53, Grahame Bowland wrote:
>
> > Get yourself a Netgear FA310TX, the Linux support is great and they're
> > very cheap these days; use the "tulip" driver.
>
> I concur.  Very nice.  Surprisingly, while I've never had any problems
> running linux with my FA310 card the windows driver is as buggy
> as.  When I
> was running windows I'd get a network connection about once every three
> reboots.
>
> skribe
>
> PS: My networks is back up =).
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