Re: Ethernet-Card for Laptop

[Kenneth Chin <kenchin@engineer.com>]

Michael Thaler wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> I want to buy a pcmcia-ethernet-card for my notebook. I have a Sharp
> 9090 and I want to establish a little network with an old Pentium 75.
> 
> First, is a 10 MBit/s card enough or should I buy a 100 MBit/s card?
> Are these cards much more expensive?
> 
> Furthermore, are there any problems with these cards or do they
> generaly run with Linux? Are there any prefered cards?

Visit http://pcmcia.sourceforge.org/. It has Linux PCMCIA information.
Make sure the Ethernet card that you wanted is supported by Linux.

Also read the latest PCMCIA-HOWTO.

I'm currently using 3Com Megahertz 56K modem + 10/100 ethernet and
it's working fine on my Twinhead 166MMX notebook.

Regards,
Kenneth