LinuxQuestions.org HCL - PRO200WL 10/100Mbps PCI Fast Ethernet Card

Bebo · 03-17-2004, 04:02 AM

This card has been working so nicely that I have almost forgotten about it - which should be the highest rating, right? :)

The distributions I've used it with have picked it up directly; Mandrake 8.2, 9.0 and 9.1, Slackware 9.1, and of course Knoppix 3.2 and 3.3.

celejar · 04-20-2004, 04:02 PM

I would rate the compatibility higher, except for the fact that the dmfe driver (included) requires kernel 2.2.x or higher. I was originally running RHL 5.1 (kernel 2.0.36) and I couldn't get it working, so I upgraded to Mandrake 6.1, and now it works fine.

javpra · 05-12-2004, 11:12 AM

This card has worked without any problems with SuSE 8.1 and Slackware 9.1. It also includes Linux drivers which I have not had a need to use since both distros found it.

Valindar · 07-02-2004, 01:06 AM

I've tested it with both tulip and dmfe - works perfectly.
Slackware 9.1 used tulip by default when I installed it. When I upgraded my kernel to 2.6.5 I started using dmfe as I missed tulip when I was looking for it in make menuconfig (it was there though).

bretts5964 · 02-20-2006, 04:35 PM

Worked fine on SUSE 9.x with tulip driver. Upgrading to SUSE 10.0 preserved the settings and also worked. A clean install of SUSE 10.0 failed though, and could only be resolved by switching the driver to dmfe. (In YAST, select "DM9102 PCI Fast Ethernet").