[eepro100] RE: eepro100 digest, Vol 1 #400 - 1 msg
Ogden, Aaron A.
aogden@unocal.com
Thu Mar 21 11:58:01 2002
Vanilla 2.4.x seems to support these using the Tulip driver... mine show up
as ADMtek Comet cards, the tulip driver is running them just fine.
I had an older LNE100TX (v3?) that worked fine with the Tulip driver as
well.
I know this is off-topic, I was just trying to help.
--aaron
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Donald Becker [SMTP:becker@scyld.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 11:43 AM
> To: Ogden, Aaron A.
> Cc: 'eepro100@scyld.com'
> Subject: Re: [eepro100] RE: eepro100 digest, Vol 1 #400 - 1 msg
>
> On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Ogden, Aaron A. wrote:
>
> > > The card i have is Linksys LNE100TX Fast Ethernet
> > > Adapter(LNE100TX v4).
>
> > You don't need any special drivers for this card, the drivers are
> already in
> > the kernel... just select DEC Tulip (210x0). I have five of these cards
> and
> > they work great in every OS I have tried. As far as I know they are
> some of
> > the fastest 100base-T cards.
>
> Incorrect. This is an ADMtek Comet card. Most older tulip drivers (and
> the one in the kernel is based on an old version) won't support this chip.
>
>
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