Look, I'm going to get a supported NIC over the weekend.


However, I think Linksys markets pretty good products, and at any rate more
drivers is better.  If the man wants to hack out a driver he is to be
encouraged.


The only real question is does a driver for the free *nixes already exist.
If it does, then building a new driver is an accademic exercise.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Craig
> White
> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 6:27 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: RE: No eth0:
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> > [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Deepak
> > Saxena
> > Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 11:32 AM
> > To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> > Subject: Re: No eth0:
> >
> >
> > On Mar 30 2001, at 10:39, Trent Shipley was caught saying:
> > >   Bus  0, device  10, function  0:
> > >     Ethernet controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 17).
> > >       Vendor id=1317. Device id=985.
> > >       Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ 11.
> > Master Capable.
> > > Latency=64.  Min Gnt=255.Max Lat=255.
> > >       I/O at 0xd400 [0xd401].
> > >       Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xefffec00 [0xefffec00].
> >
> > OK.  Looks like linux does not support this yet. I _may_ (no promises)
> > be able to make a hack to the driver to make it support this card
> > as I think it's just adding 1 line of code to tulip_core.c.  If I
> > have time, I'll look into it next week.
> >
> ---
> Deepak - before you go charging ahead...take note of my earlier post that
> there indeed have been 4 different chipsets used on the Linksys LNE10/100
> labelled cards - not all of them use the tulip chipsets. Kevin was right
> about one of the more recent versions having a compilable driver loaded on
> the floppy disk - but that pertained specifically to the current tulip
> chipset which I found unnecessary with Redhat 6.2 - it worked by selecting
> the DEC4X5 driver. This is precisely why I avoid the Linksys
> cards - when I
> can go to Fry's and get an SMC-EZ card which will be detected right out of
> the box for $15. Everything else seems pointless.
>
> Craig
>
>
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