[olug] eth0 again

[Tim Russell]

I've had some problems with the RealTek-based cards not giving quite the
throughput that they should.  A few too many errors when you start the use
the network extensively, and the like.  Never could clear those up.  Had a
lot of luck with Linksys cards - not as cheap as the realteks (paid about
$29 for mine), and under Mandrake 7.0 I had to mess with an updated Tulip
driver (it uses a DEC chipset? I guess...).  Under Mandrake 8 I haven't had
any problems.


Just my 1 1/2 cents....

Tim #2


-----Original Message-----
From: Jon [mailto:thechunk at home.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 11:30 PM
To: olug at bstc.net
Subject: Re: [olug] eth0 again


I second this.  look for the rtl or realtek chipsets.  they are easy as pie
to setup but get a bad name.  Don't really know why think it is cause they
have performance issues?  but mine all worked painles sunder linux and I
never paid more than 15.00

On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 11:09:30PM -0500, David Walker wrote:
> If this machine has a PCI slot I'd recommend blowing $12 to $15 dollars
> at DIT or somewhere and getting a cheap PCI network card.  Every one
> that I've purchased from there has been recognized easily by Linux.  I
> have a couple of older SMC cards laying around but it's easier to buy a
> new one then spend a lot of time on the old one.
>
> On Thursday 30 August 2001 19:05, you wrote:
> > Ok a couple days back I asked about this and got a bunch of responses I
> > have tried everything even moved card but nada. Here is what I have and
> > what I get.  It is a EtherEZ SMC-8416T ISA card.  The how to says yes it
is
> > supported as SMC-ULTRA and they recommend disabling the PNP in bios for
> > that IRQ.  So I booted in the dos mode and ran the SMC utility to get
the
> > I/O and irq and made appropriate changes.  I rebooted and it said
getting
> > etho delaying init of eth0 then fails. I added the info to the
modules.conf
> > and restarted same thing I went in and added it with netconfig now
system
> > locks up on boot.  It does not delay eth0 but just stops there.  I
pulled
> > out the sound card and modem on the chance it was a conflict that I was
not
> > seeing as when I changed it one time the sound card crashed too.  Oh
well
> > ANY ideas or where would be a good place to start over from.  How can I
get
> > by where it stops on boot other than reloading linux (which I am getting
> > tired of doing).
> >
> > Thanks Tom
>
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