Ethernet Card

Alex Snow alex_snow at gmx.net
Tue Jan 11 20:53:13 EST 2005


the newer 3coms arent very good but the older pci ones and most of the 
isa models are quite nice. I've been using 3c509s for years and they 
work great for 10mbps and I have some boxes with pci 3c595s and 3c905s 
that work quite well.
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 07:41:56PM -0500, nick G 
wrote:
> Good Choice, Janina.  I've got four computers over here, two have realtech
> ethernet cards, two have ThreeCom.  The ThreeCom's are not as good as the
> realtech's, and one of the ThreeComs is gigabit.
> Thanks,
> Nick
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at rednote.net>
> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 7:17 PM
> Subject: Re: Ethernet Card
> 
> 
> If modprobe isn't finding your card, it may not be a card you can use,
> after all. Sorry to say that, but then network cards can be had very
> affordably these days. I bought a realtech 10/100 for $10 at a computer
> fair some time ago, for instance.
> 
> You might need to decide whether chasing this particular card, or just
> replacing it is the smarter way to go.
> 
> ace writes:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a 3C505 Ethernet card (according to my friend who sent it to me).
> I
> > installed the card myself and tried
> > ifconfig
> > and
> > ifconfig eth0
> > and it said device not found.  So, I went to load the module:
> > 3c59x
> > which is a series module for a few more cards.  After doing a modprobe on
> > this, I still get the same results--cannot find the device.  Are there any
> > other modules that need to be applied to the kernel?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Robby
> >
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