yeah, pain in the ass.. i had problems on 486s getting the network to communicate _at all_ i knew the nics were good and they were detected but i always got 100% packet loss for unknown reasons, and i had a p100 that failed after a few minutes using a pci NIC but runs for months with an ISA nic. the eepros have been good to me too although im not an intel fan and i try to avoid their stuff whenever possible, the 3com 3c905C failed eventually last night too:( it worked for a while in my k6-2(never tested the driver but the lights on the switch came on) when i slapped it into my i440BX/Celeron system, no lights on the switch(although i got lights on my hub when i plugged it in..) tried it in the k6-2 again and it still didn't work! ack so i had to put an eepro100 back in my celery box and lights came on even when the machine wasn't powered up! (which was weird)
pisses me off, damn network stuff, i wish they'd get a standard like the VGA card makers did(VESA?) everything is splintering in the network world. sucks. nate On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Nate Duehr wrote: nate >All the vendors will drive you nuts right now. They all used to work nate >hard if they had good drivers and good cards to keep their good names. nate >Then merger mania took over and it's all messed up. nate > nate >I tend to use the Intel EtherExpressPro 10/100's at work in my Linux nate >machines. They always load up and run. There's a known lockup issue with nate >them, but at least I'm dealing with a KNOWN problem that way... I've only nate >had one card do it out of ten or so in active traffic on full 100Base nate >segments, so I don't lose any sleep at night over it. Especially since nate >all those machines are set up with bunches of redundancy anyway! nate > nate >Hopefully your night is going well. I just found a big ol' bug in nate >OpenSSH from tonight's Potato I think. Did some strace's and it nate >certainly smells like a bug. I asked the maintainer for confirmation, nate >if he could. (Requires reverse DNS records to be screwed up and that nate >ALL : PARANOID be in /etc/hosts.deny to happen... I think it's nate >reproducible though.) nate > nate >Have a nice night. nate > nate >On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 08:51:10PM -0800, aphro wrote: nate >> hello (the other nate) nate >> nate >> i have one of those cards as well, and it works great in linux, just make nate >> sure to use a recent kernel or you will have to manually update the nate >> driver. nate >> nate >> http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/rtl8139.html nate >> nate >> There are too many vendors selling RTL8139 boards to list them all. The nate >> RTL8139 and RTL8139A chips have the ability to load a different PCI Vendor nate >> and Device ID from the EEPROM. Combined with a unique chip label, some nate >> boards give the appearance of being new and unique chips. Identified chips nate >> that fall into this category are nate >> nate >> Accton MPX5030 series (relabeled RTL8139) nate >> SMC 1211TX (relabeled RTL8139) nate >> nate >> only his newer drivers can see the relabled chips.. one weird thing, i nate >> have a 3COM 3C905B that _refuses_ to work with a linksys 10/100 switch, nate >> today i swapped it for a 3COM 3C905C and it appears to work nate >> fine! wtf! damn 3com.. nate >> nate >> nate nate >> nate >> On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Nate Duehr wrote: nate >> nate >> nate >Ahh! Good! nate >> nate > nate >> nate >You've made me a very happy man today. I'll go home and put it in my nate >> nate >system tonight! nate >> nate > nate >> nate >Now to see if it's compatible with the various other OS's installed on nate >> nate >that box! nate >> nate > nate >> nate >Thanks for the heads-up! nate >> nate > nate >> nate >On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 02:30:46PM -0800, Bruce Mobarry wrote: nate >> nate >> Hi Nate, nate >> nate >> nate >> nate >> I have exactly this card in my computer. I first tried to get it nate >> nate >> working under slink with Linux 2.0.36 compilied as a loadable module, nate >> nate >> but failed. I compiled it (using the RTL8139 chipset driver from Donald nate >> nate >> Becker) directly into a 2.2.13 kernel successfully and am running my SMC nate >> nate >> EzCard 10/100 under potato. I am on a 10baseT net also. nate >> nate >> nate >> nate >> Bruce Mobarry nate >> nate >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] nate >> nate > nate >> nate >-- nate >> nate >Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> nate >> nate > nate >> nate >GPG Key fingerprint = DCAF 2B9D CC9B 96FA 7A6D AAF4 2D61 77C5 7ECE C1D2 nate >> nate >Public Key available upon request, or at wwwkeys.pgp.net and others. nate >> nate > nate >> nate >> ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- nate >> Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ nate >> Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ nate >> Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ nate >> Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ nate >> Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ nate >> -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- nate >> 8:47pm up 137 days, 8:43, 4 users, load average: 1.71, 1.59, 1.55 nate >> nate > nate >-- nate >Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> nate > nate >GPG Key fingerprint = DCAF 2B9D CC9B 96FA 7A6D AAF4 2D61 77C5 7ECE C1D2 nate >Public Key available upon request, or at wwwkeys.pgp.net and others. nate > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 7:08am up 137 days, 19:05, 4 users, load average: 1.85, 1.61, 1.83
