RE: Suggestions for an easy-to-setup 10/100 net card?
On 10-Jan-2001 Bryan Carpenter wrote:
> I'm a newbie asking for help as to which network
> card to buy that will "just be seen" by a standard
> Debian 2.2.17 install. I've tried a Netgear FA312
> and a Linksys LNE100TX rev. 4.1, but neither seems
> to be easy to set up. I did try getting the "tulip"
> driver from scyld.com, but it seems to require munging
> to compile and use. I'm willing to spend money to get a
> card that will either just "be seen" and set up by
> the default install, or else at most need to have
> one of the standard optional modules chosen that
> are offered early in the Debian install.
>
odd, I find pci network controllers to be uniformly easy.
insert card
turn on machine
insmod <driver> # in your case tulip
Generally if this is not working, you have hardware conflicts (too many cards,
or perhaps cards trying to be on similar settings).
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