Just wanted to throw in a "me too". This is totally consistant with my
experience with the newer linkSys (and the 10/100 mix)
charles
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Robert Glover wrote:
> >
> > I could not get the LinkSys LNE100TX fast ethernet card (PCI) to work under
> > RedHat 6.1 on a Pentium III system. The online doc says the tulip driver
> > ought to work, but it never did.
>
> Did you get the latest tulip.c driver source from the LinkSys web site and
> build a new kernel? It might not help. Then again it might.
>
> > The problem *might* have to do with the fact that I have a second ethernet
> > card. Both Kudzu and linuxconf/netconf seemed to get confused about which
> > was which. (I kept a careful log at each step, so I don't think it was
> > me.) No matter which other card I used (both of them 10 MHz, PCI: a
> > Kingston (tulip) and a "LiteOn 82c168" (ne2k-pci)), I could never
> > initialize both eth0 and eth1. (I could sometimes init one or the other,
> > but never both.) The only thing that finally worked was to give up on the
> > LNE100TX and revert back to having two 10MHz cards.
>
> I have a LinkSys card like you are describing, but I had trouble keeping it
> working. It would work for a while and then crap out. Re-initializing the
> card got it going again (sometimes). Other times it would wait hours before
> suddenly starting. The card worked fine in a Windoze box. That's when I
> bought the RTL8139 card. I read that they're nothing more than blocks of
> plastic glued to a board. All I can say is that they work fine in my Linux
> box. The LinkSys card wouldn't and that's why it's sitting in a drawer now.
>
> > Is it possible that there is a problem trying to run both a 100MHz and
> > 10MHz card in the same machine?
>
> I run a 10 MB and a 100 MBit card in the same box and have no problems: a
> 3Com509 and an RTL8139 clone. I have plug & play and kudzu turned off
> though.
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