Networking question

[Randy Rathbun]

I completely understand :) 

Just an FYI on the getting the Linksys card running as I know there are going
to be a lot of people getting these in the future (they are the cards that come
with the Linksys 10/100 5 port hub that you can get at Best Buy for $99 - quite
a good bargain, imho)...

The cards are marked as Linksys EtherFast 10/100 Rev 2. They have a wake-on-lan
socket on them, which I don't use. In order to get them to work, you have to go
to the Linksys website and download the latest tulip.c file and compile that
into your kernel or compile it as a module. The tulip.c file that comes with
Redhat 6.1 and before will not work with the rev 2 cards. Here
http://www.linksys.com/support/solution/nos/linux_lne100tx.htm is the Linksys
page that talks about the card. 

> this is a cop-out answer... 
> being as that I'm just as lazy, I tend to stick with cards that work with
> little problems, even if they cost more.  I'm quite happy with the 3Com
> 3C905B-TX cards.  You have done better than I with the LinkSys.  I
> couldn't get it up in two minutes, so it was doomed to be a Windows device
> forever.  You'll likely find the 3Com to be a lot easier to deal with, and
> can get 'em at Telectronics for about $65.00.  (Yes, definately twice the
> price of the LinkSys.)
> 
> Dustin
>