Re: SMC EzCard 10/100
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 >> bmobarry@uidaho.edu
nate >> nate >
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