CNET Pro-200 NIC PCI

[Nelson Garcia]

Thanks Warren, I just found out that my brother also has a SIS900 fast
ethernet port onboard.
According to RH, there is a module included in the distribution disc.
We'll give that a shot.  Any experience with that one?
Aloha,
Nelson

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Warren Togami [mailto:warren at togami.com]
> Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 12:07 PM
> To: Linux & Unix Advocates & Users
> Subject: [luau] Re: CNET Pro-200 NIC PCI
>
>
> CNET Pro 110, 120 and 200 cards use the tulip kernel module.
> Unfortunately,
> you may need to upgrade your kernel due to slight incompatibilities with
> older versions.
>
> In my experience CNET cards are VERY BAD.  They tend to transmit corrupted
> packets with all kinds of wrong MAC addresses.  I made the
> mistake of buying
> 12 Pro 110 and 120 cards, and Eric Hattemer had the same problem with the
> Pro 200.  Each and every one had this problem either at the very
> beginning,
> or it developed over time.
>
> On some networks like RoadRunner this is somewhat tolerable and
> you only get
> bad thru-put, but Eric's dorm at USC rejected his card entirely when it
> detected all the corrupted packets coming from random MAC addresses.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Nelson Garcia" <garcian002 at hawaii.rr.com>
> To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at list.luau.hi.net>
> Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 10:56 AM
> Subject: [luau] CNET Pro-200 NIC PCI
>
>
> > My brother, who is in the Dominican Republic, is trying to setup a Linux
> > box.
> > He has a CNET Pro-200 PCI nic card and can't seem to get it to work.
> > Has anyone gotten this NIC card to work on Linux RH 7.0?
> > If so, what is the correct module?
> > The CNET website is no help, although they claim that this card is "Red
> Hat
> > Certified", whatever that means.
> > Thanks,
> > Nelson
> >
>
>
>
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