PCMCIA Card Suitability with SuSE / User experience

[Fred Wright]

Thanks for the input; I hadn't found that site.

At 07:36 4/28/03 -0700, you wrote:
>Message: 8
>From: Kurt Granroth <kurt@granroth.org>
>To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>Subject: Re: PCMCIA Card Suitability with SuSE / User experience
>Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 22:20:27 -0700
>Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>
>On Sunday 27 April 2003 01:48 pm, Fred Wright wrote:
> > The following is on sale at Fry's with a mail-in rebate making the cost
> > <$10.  Does anyone have experience with this card under Linux (I am
> > specifically looking for SuSE support).  Information on
> > http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ is sparse.
> >
> > D-Link DFE-690TXD 32-Bit Cardbus 10/100 PC Card
>
>No personal experience, but a very quick search on google for "suse
>dfe-690txd" came up with this link:
>
>http://www.pairlist.net/pipermail/linux-laptop/2002-July/000525.html
>
>With the following quote:
>
>"If the machine you buy doesn't have built-in Ethernet, I can recommend the
>D-Link DFE-690TXD adapter or the Xircom adapters. For SuSE 8.0, both of
>these are *literally* plug-and-play except that you have to configure the
>usual IP parameters. But hardware detection is 100% automatic."


-- 
Fred Wright
fawright@earthlink.net