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Article #55743ethernet cards - experience?
From: Tony Langdon
Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 00:00
Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 00:00
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It's 05 May 97 10:52, We'll return to mbartz@werple.net.au and All's discussion of ethernet cards - experience? mb> Linux has difficulty detecting NE2000 cards. Pass mb> ``ether=11,0x240,eth0'' or whatever is appropriate for your system, mb> to your kernel. I've never had a problem with NE2000 detection, even with cheap clones. Every card I've used with Linux gets autodetected (Linux often does a better job than the commercial OS's at hardware detection :-) ). ... Confucius say... Man who polish knob play pocket pool. -- | Fidonet: Tony Langdon 3:632/367.2 | Internet: tlang@freeway.DIALix.oz.au | | Freeway Internet Gateway, Melbourne, Australia. For information about | our services and conditions of use, e-mail: | info@freeway.DIALix.oz.au, to receive a copy of the FAQ.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,a3051fdc9cea5513 X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: tlang@freeway.DIALix.oz.au (Tony Langdon) Subject: ethernet cards - experience? Date: 1997/05/06 Message-ID: <4ed_9705070701@freeway.DIALix.oz.au> X-Deja-AN: 239818928 References: <336c3a42.2038551@news-s01.ca.us.ibm.net> <m23es23idd.fsf@reddwarf.aup.com.au> Organization: Fidonet: Freeway Usenet <=> FTN gateway Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux X-FTN-To: mbartz@werple.net.au