NIC card that works with slackware

summoner · 07-13-2004, 09:26 AM

Hello, My nic card (Kingston 100TX) apparently does not have a driver that works with slackware/linux that I can find. I plan on buying a cheap NIC card, but I want to buy one that will definitely work with slackware.

Or, if someone knows where to get a driver for my KINGSTON 100TX card (i'll post more specific inormation when I get home, <3 posting at work

), that would also work. Any help is appreciated,

-thx, summ0n3r

penguin4 · 07-13-2004, 09:45 AM

summoner; check u r card with LQO HCL INDEX. expand to view compatibility. http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/index.php

summoner · 07-13-2004, 10:17 AM

nah, no Kingston cards are in there. I was more interested in what cards people use and if there is a common one which people use and that works with slackware 10.

rotvogel · 07-13-2004, 10:34 AM

Well, I use 3c905 TX/M cards and Intel Etherpress 100 Pro . But they don't come cheap. You probably want something with a Realtec 8139 chipset among other cheap options.

PS: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-H...c.html#AEN5487 <-- Hardware compability list

summoner · 07-13-2004, 10:46 AM

Hmmmm, I found a 3c905 for 6.59 here, as long as the shipping works out.

http://www.gearxs.com/gearxs/product...oducts_id=2301

Might not be what I want, but for ~$7, I'm going to give it a shot. thx for the info

netmask · 07-13-2004, 11:46 AM

Yeah.. realtek are cheap and work great.

auditek747 · 07-13-2004, 12:15 PM

There's good advice here, any rtl8139 will work out of the box.
I have a TRENDnet te100 pciwin (rtl81390) that I picked up
at an office supply store for $10 US.

penguin4 · 07-13-2004, 12:31 PM

netmask & auditek747; thanks for those tips. way to go guys! if everybody
would do just what you both do more peripherals would work. cuz everybody would know.

Shade · 07-13-2004, 04:46 PM

Save your money, the Kingston 100TX is supported by the tulip module.

As root:

Code:

modprobe tulip
dhcpcd eth0

That's assuming you get your IP through dhcp of course.
If not, you can use netconfig to configure your static IP address.

--Shade

auditek747 · 07-13-2004, 05:04 PM

Looks like Shade is right.
Give it a shot!

Shade · 07-13-2004, 05:19 PM

Gotta love www.google.com/linux

My query was:
"Kingston 100tx"

And the first hit was from the tulip kernel developers mailing list...

--Shade

SBing · 07-14-2004, 01:12 AM

Grin, nice one Shade ;). It always confused me at first how people worked out what driver went with a particular piece of hardware...then google/linux came along :D

summoner · 07-14-2004, 07:33 AM

ah, thx Shade. I tried the tulip driver once, but never used

modprobe tulip
dhcpcd eth0

I'll give that a try and ty very much.