Re: Network doesn't work

[Mitch Blevins <mblevin@mindspring.com>]

In foo.debian-user, you 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.

I've never had problems with them.  They're fast and dirt cheap.
I have also heard many other people sing praises to NetGear.

-Mitch