Subject: Re: Broken 7200 ethernet support
From: Leonard Chung (leonard@ssl.berkeley.edu)
Date: Mon May 28 2001 - 12:44:22 MDT
Thanks for the tip Bryn -- I wish these things were documented somewhere
obvious.
Do you have any recommendations for a good and cheap ethernet card? I'm
weary of the Linksys card that Randall mentioned as a card that causes the
interface to go down isn't really acceptable...
Leonard
At 09:34 AM 5/28/2001, Bryn Hughes wrote:
>It's more of a kernel issue AFAIK, so you're not going to find another
>distro that's any better. Or rather it's more of a 7200 issue. Just get
>another NIC, they're very very cheap.
>
>Bryn
>>
>>At 06:35 PM 5/21/2001, Randall Perry wrote:
>>>
>>>I have a 7200 running as a server. Don't use the built-in NIC; installed
>>>a Linksys 10/100 card. It doesn't have packet loss, but it does flake
>>>out (turns itself off) because of a bug in the tulip driver (which I
>>>haven't had a chance to upgrade).
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