Re: Netgear PC cards

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

Joe Bonansinga said:
> Is anyone using a netgear FA510c in their notebooks. I can't find the card
> in the Redhat compatibility list, but netgear advertises it as Linux ready?

A large percentage of PCMCIA network cards are either glorified NE2000
clones or tulip-based cards.  Both should work fine on Linux.

While I've never tried that card specifically, most Netgear stuff
works great with Linux.  I buy their tulip clone PCI cards all the
time.

Actually, I just found that card in the list of supported cards.

    http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/SUPPORTED.CARDS

Of course, just because it's supported doesn't mean it's supported in
the version of Red Hat that you are running, and it doesn't
*necessarily* mean that it's supported *well*.

> By the way, what are other people using in their notebooks.

Kara just picked up a Linksys PCM200.  After a little bit of a fight
finding the right driver (it's a tulip of some sort that wasn't
supported in the stock Red Hat 6.2 kernel), it seems to be working
great.  (Note, that's the PCM200, *not* the PCMPC200.  Also note that
the PCM200 *isn't* on the list of supported cards.  Go figure.)

I've seen various other people have good luck with 3Com cards, but
they're just too expensive...

Steve
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