Re: Linksys NIC-correction

["Ray Holtz" <rayholtz@hotmail.com>]

Duh!  not IDE ports,  ISA ports,  sorry, I had a brain fart.  It's been such
a long time since I've needed to say 'ISA port'
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ray Holtz" <rayholtz@hotmail.com>
To: <silug-discuss@silug.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 5:01 PM
Subject: SILUG: Linksys NIC


> Hey all,
> I think I remember (unfortunatly) hearing that Linksys network cards are
not
> Linux friendly (even though they share the first 3 letters). I've got an
old
> 166 box that I would like to turn into a router for when I can finally
> afford broadband access.  I've got Redhat 9 running on it,  without X
> running, so it will just be old school command line.  The thing is it's
got
> a linksys card, and it cannot get a DHCP address, and when i set a static
> address, it still cannot ping other PCs.
>
> Anywho, If the problem is Linksys,  can anyone recommend an IDE NIC that I
> can buy?  This box has a PCI and 2 IDE ports,  so I'd like to get two of
the
> same IDE NICs for this to be a router.
>
> Thanks,
> Ray
>
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