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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.
Distribution: Slackware 10.1 and Gentoo 2005.1 from Stage 1
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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)
Distribution: Slackware 10.1 and Gentoo 2005.1 from Stage 1
Posts: 84
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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)
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.
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
Originally posted by clavius I think is a good idea to make a list of NICs which we have and work without problems in Linux (and can be installed without problems or hacks).
Personaly, I use only 3Com or Intel based NICs and never had problems with them. At the other end is RealTek based NICs that are cheaper, but are the most bad NICs (not specialy as support but as quality).
Iīm running 4 or 5 8139 nics, 2 are in my firewall and they run fine, i havenīt 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 donīt know how reliable they really are.
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