Linux-supported Wireless Networking deal in KC

Gerald Combs gerald at ethereal.com
Fri Jan 23 04:56:34 CST 2004


Leo J Mauler wrote:
> Update on the PCI Card: it uses the RealTek RTL8139 chipset.  Great news 
> for binary distros, though the guy in the HyperTech shop said it was a 
> pain to do a compiled distro--like his Gentoo--and have to compile 
> the RTL8139 chipset driver.

Are you sure it's an RTL8139?  AFAIK, that's a fast Ethernet (i.e. not 
802.11) chipset:

     http://www.scyld.com/network/rtl8139.html




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