More information RE PCMCIA cards...

[Walter Dunz]

I can identify with your pain.  I was all excited (a couple of versions ago)  when I was shopping 
for a nic card and saw LINUX!!! under the the list of supported operating systems!!  

There was dancing and rejoicing in the isles!  (In spite of the security cameras!)

I felt the same frustration when when the live 'dummy filter' tried to manage my expectations.  
(You can't really call what they did for me TECHNICAL support!)

Well, my response was fairly nice in spite of the false advertising, but I did manage to get to 
talk to one of the engineers that actually used Linux at home.  It didn't help a whole lot, but he 
did manage to give me some decent advice.  By the time I got the changes to the tulip driver 
compiled into that version of Red Hat, the next version was out and the card was fully supported.

"Miller, Oscar MILLERO" <MILLERO at LEAVENWORTH.ARMY.MIL> wrote:
>
> You might try the RedHat supported hardware site.
> http://www.redhat.com/support/hardware/
> 
> They have a pretty good list of what is supported or where to find other
> documentation.
> 
> Oscar 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thud-n-Blunder at excite.com [mailto:Thud-n-Blunder at excite.com]
> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 7:39 AM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: More information RE PCMCIA cards...
> 
> 
> I found this link that listed support for PCMCIA cards under Linux:
> 
> http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/SUPPORTED.CARDS
> 
> Under that link, here's one of the things I found:
> 
> .
> .
> .
> Fast Ethernet (10/100baseT) adapters:
> .
> .
> .
> 
>     [pcnet_cs driver] [x86,ppc,axp]
> .
> .
> .
>     Linksys PCMPC100 EtherFast  [ NOT the v3 cards! ]
>     Linksys PCM100H1 HomeLink 10/100
>     Linksys NP100 Network Everywhere [ NOT the v2 ones! ]
>     Logitec LPM-LN100TX
>     Melco LPC2-TX
> .
> .
> .
> 
> Naturally, it turned out that I got the v3 EtherFast card by Linksys. <sigh>
> 
> However, I printed out the list, and it's now going with me on my next
> browsing/shopping trip, so as someone once said, "If life hands you lemons,
> make lemonade. However, if life hands you limes, then sorry, but you're
> hosed!"
> 
> If this has already been done to death in earlier postings, I apologize, but
> I thought I'd offer a "lime alert" for any new buyers.
> 
> I'll also take this opportunity to inform people that if you try calling
> Linksys for technical support, their first reaction on finding out that
> you're running Linux is to say "Sorry, we don't support Linux," and to try
> to hang up.
> 
> Of course, I may also be over-reacting based on my frustration level, so if
> I sound annoyed, outraged, and/or ticked off, please forgive me. <smile>
> Meanwhile, I'll keep on plugging away at the issue... much like my fellow
> Linux geeks on this list.
> 
> John Gardner
> thud-n-blunder at excite.com
> (barleymarsh at mailandnews.com is temporarily down)
> 
> I never knew I could learn so much. Now, to retain it!
>     -- The Tick
> 
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I prefer things to be "fail-safe" rather than "fool-proof" because everything fails at some point, 
and Microsoft already caters to the 'fool' market niche!

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