Does anyone know of a way to disable the onboard nic so it doesnt ever come up again?

Like disable it in the bios?

Ok I disabled it in the bios.


But it sees the card as an ADMtek ADM983 Linksys Etherfast 10/100 Network/main interface

Realtek RTL8139 ... Never had any problems with it, but it was a bitch to install in Windows.

Netgear RP114 router - Never has any problems and I never need to reboot it, nice firewall

I work for the residential networking service on my college campus. Realtek cards suck from my experience, almost all of the hosts on our network (about 6,000 - 7,000 hosts) run some form of windows.

In my linux box I have 2 Linksys LNE100TX's , 1 v4.1 and 1 v5.0 and they were both detected and installed during the install process. Worked for RedHat 7.2 and RedHat 7.3.

As others have suggested, use Realtek NICs. They are possibly the most widely supported devices in the history of devices. My thoughts.
*Emebedded

Well, let me explain my delema.

I have to listen to mp3's and be able to surf the web. And I want to do it with Mandrake 9.1.


I have even purchased a nic and it wouldnt work either.


I want suse, but I couldnt get the ftp thing to work.

Does anyone know of a website I can download the iso's?

I have a RealTek and a VIA 6103 (onboard) in a Red Hat 8.0 machine. NIC will detect on install and I'm having a heck of a time getting the source to work. Had the puter for 4 days now and still no network, on either card. Any suggections?

Richie
BIT (SPSU - Marietta, GA)
AIT (Floyd College - Rome, GA)

The thing that is really puzzling to me is that if I run Knoppix the OS detects and loads the appropriate drivers upon boot. Both the RealTek and the Onboard nic work flawlessly I have done an lsmod in Knoppix and cp'd the .o files to floppy. And then tried insmod'ing in RedHat with no luck (says wrong gcc version, Knoppix compiled with an older version that Red Hat installed). Does this help any at all?

Richie
BIT (SPSU - Marietta, GA)
AIT (Floyd College - Rome, GA)

6 $10 RealTek NICs (8139too) working great on my home network.

Anyone gonna wish me luck installing an ISA NE2000 clone on an older PC?
(only ISA slots available, only card handy.)

I actually use a pretty obscure onboard NIC (SiS 950) and I have never had any probs with it. I also have a RealTek that is in my other box, and it worked like a charm right out of the box.

In the end though, stick with 3Com, most widely supported, and the extra 10$ is worth it.

slight

My Linksys LNE100TX was setup automatically and worked fine in every Mandrake distro I have used (7.2, 8.2, 9.1). It was setup fine in RH 8 as well. Slackware 9 couldn't autoprobe it for some reason, so I'm in the process of getting the tulip modules. Of course I installed Slack in order to learn linux :)
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Chris

Re: Re: To Anyone Having Nic Problems In Linux
 

http://www.tldp.org./HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/nic.html

The Linux Documentation Project started a list of working
network cards.

I´m running 4 or 5 8139 nics, 2 are in my firewall and they run fine, i haven´t had a problem. I run mdk 9.1, redhat advanced server 2.1 and no problems so far. But i only run a home network so there not running all the time, so i don´t know how reliable they really are.