On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: : Mitch Blevins wrote: : > : > The newer NetGear cards ship with a floppy that contains their : > own version of tulip.c which is not necessarily the same tulip.c : > that is included in your kernel tarball. : > : > Replace the tulip.c in the kernel tree with the one included on : > the floppy and recompile, reboot, etc. : > Maybe that will work. : > : > -Mitch : : Are these decent NICs? I'm planning a home network, and I saw NetGear : cards for about $30 US each. I read that Linux was one of the supported : OSes, and read on their website that they had their own tulip drivers. : I've heard a lot of recommendation for tulip-based NICs.
The rev A model with the "Digital" chip is excellent - I have several in hard use. I have a huge box of the rev B NICs (with the "Netgear" chip) - haven't had a chance to stress test these yet, but I plan to do so this week. I'm told you must use the tulip.c found on the Netgear disk for the rev B NICs ... -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
