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[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

On Tue, 15 Apr 2003 8:46:01 -0500
Saaber <vze21grj at verizon.net> wrote:

> Greetings
> 
> I established a (windoze) Home WiFi Net using
> a LinkSys Wireless Access Point (4 port) Router,
> which works fine. A remote win98 machine
> communicates well from the other end of the house.
> 
> While talking to LinkSys support, to solve a minor
> config. problem, I indicated that I wanted to use
> a LinkSys LNE100 NIC (ether)card to network a Linux 
> (RH 7.3) machine (co-located to the router), 
> as the next step in the plan.
> 
> I was surprised when the guy said "We don't have 
> a driver for Linux" (?)
> 
> Perhaps another NIC is a better choice?
> 
> May I assume that generic NIC drivers existing in
> the kernel 2.4.18 will probably work, or do I need to
> turn right, at this point?
I have a Linksys LNE 100TX 10/100 card in my system with a Linksys
BEFW11S4 4 port wireless router. Linux has absolutely no problem with
this card. I use SuSE 8.1. The router has not given me an ounce of
trouble either. 

Many vendors, like Linksys, don't support Linux directly, but most of
the Linux network drivers should work. When I first put this board into
my system, I had to download the current tulip driver from Donald
Becker's web site: http://www.scyld.com, http://www.scyld.com/network,
but that was a few years ago. The last few releases of SuSE Linux had
the appropriate driver. I'm sure that Red Hat also contains the
appropriate drivers. 

FWIW, I've found that Linksys products have always performed well for
me. 


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