[olug] eth0 again

[Jon]

I second this.  look for the rtl or realtek chipsets.  they are easy as pie to setup but get a bad name.  Don't really know why think it is cause they have performance issues?  but mine all worked painles sunder linux and I never paid more than 15.00

On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 11:09:30PM -0500, David Walker wrote:
> If this machine has a PCI slot I'd recommend blowing $12 to $15 dollars
> at DIT or somewhere and getting a cheap PCI network card.  Every one
> that I've purchased from there has been recognized easily by Linux.  I
> have a couple of older SMC cards laying around but it's easier to buy a
> new one then spend a lot of time on the old one.
> 
> On Thursday 30 August 2001 19:05, you wrote:
> > Ok a couple days back I asked about this and got a bunch of responses I
> > have tried everything even moved card but nada. Here is what I have and
> > what I get.  It is a EtherEZ SMC-8416T ISA card.  The how to says yes it is
> > supported as SMC-ULTRA and they recommend disabling the PNP in bios for
> > that IRQ.  So I booted in the dos mode and ran the SMC utility to get the
> > I/O and irq and made appropriate changes.  I rebooted and it said getting
> > etho delaying init of eth0 then fails. I added the info to the modules.conf
> > and restarted same thing I went in and added it with netconfig now system
> > locks up on boot.  It does not delay eth0 but just stops there.  I pulled
> > out the sound card and modem on the chance it was a conflict that I was not
> > seeing as when I changed it one time the sound card crashed too.  Oh well
> > ANY ideas or where would be a good place to start over from.  How can I get
> > by where it stops on boot other than reloading linux (which I am getting
> > tired of doing).
> >
> > Thanks Tom
> 
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