Re: SARGE compatible Gigabit Ethernet adapter/card
First, you'd check what chipset a specific network card has. This can
usually be found out by googling or checking with the manufacurer.
If you cannot find out what chipset it has, don't bother.
Then you'd search for info on the net to see if it works on linux.
To see if you're current kernel has support for it (assuming you
have the source), type "make menuconfig" in the directory where it lies.
Choose "Load an alternative configuration file", and enter
/boot/config-version-of-your-kernel, in this case /boot/config-2.6.8-2-686.
In the kernel configuration, go to Device Drivers -> Networking Support ->
Ethernet (1000 Mbit) and check whether the chipset is selected, either as
a module (M) or compiled-in (*). If there's no option for the chipset,
the kernel cannot be compiled with support for it.
You could google for linux drivers or check the huge ndiswrapper list
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/List for support.
Ndiswrapper has great support, however, it should only be used as a last
way out. To be completely sure that it will be supported, check so that
there are at least two different drivers for your chipset to try.
When I bought my wireless lan card I had three different drivers to
choose from: an official driver, an opensource driver and ndiswrapper.
The official driver didn't work on 2.6 and I couldn't get the opensource
driver to work, so I fell back on ndiswrapper and it works great.
Just a little bit of advice.
Regards, Alexander Toresson
jim biri wrote:
> So - if anyone can help with this, I'd be much obliged:
> - Baffled as to how Sarge could support such an Intel nic card as
> detailed below as I can't find any such support in modconf or dmesg
> - Baffled as to how I could find what kind of Gigbit nic is supported
> .... in the kernel that I have installed
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:21:49 +0000, jim biri <jim.biri@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks Justin:
> >
> > What gets me - is - how do you know a card is compatible before buying?
> >
> > I've got a SARGE installation, with a "2.6.8-2-686" kernel installed.
> > If I do modconf, and look for modules to load - if I were to buy an
> > Intel card, and I can't see anything remotely looking like an Intel
> > module.
> >
> > I'm looking in: kernel/drivers/net module.
> >
> > So - if I can't find anything looking like Intel support, how would
> > Sarge just support such a network card?
> >
> > Thanks Jim.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 08:59:42 -0500, Justin Piszcz
> > <jpiszcz@servervault.com> wrote:
> > > I would recommend Intel Gigabit NICs.
> > >
> > > I have 2 in older Dell machines and on my two A-Bit boxes I have Intel
> > > Gigabit CSA NICs. They work great, 1000mbps full duplex, never have any
> > > issues with them.
> > >
> > > Sarge detected them without an issue!
> > >
> > > Intel and Linux have a good history together and Intel's drivers reflect
> > > that, I would choose no other than Intel for gigabit.
> > >
> > > Justin.
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: jim biri [mailto:jim.biri@gmail.com]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 8:50 AM
> > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > > Subject: SARGE compatible Gigabit Ethernet adapter/card
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Anyone recommend a SARGE compatible Gigabit Ethernet adapter/card?
> > >
> > > Any makes from brandnames such as:
> > > - D-Link
> > > - NetGear
> > > - Belkin
> > >
> > > would be handy.
> > > Thanks, Jim.
> > >
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