[GLLUG] New Network Card

[Melson, Paul]

Brian,

My experience is similar to Ben's.  I have used stock kernel/modules in
conjunction with RealPort cards with the following configs:

Hardware			Distro
Compaq LTE 5200		RedHat 7.0
Compaq Armada M700	RedHat 7.0
Compaq Armada M700	RedHat 7.2
Compaq Armada M700	Debian 2.2r4 (potato)
Compaq Armada E500	RedHat 7.0
Compaq Armada E500	RedHat 7.2
Compaq Armada E500	RedHat 7.3


Right now I am running RedHat 7.3 on my E500 with both the internal
Intel NIC (as eth0) and a RealPort (as eth1) working seamlessly and
without having to mess with custom kernels or modules.  For what it's
worth, the LTE had problems with the RealPort combo card tying up ttyS0.
I haven't had that issue with any of our Armadas.

Hope that helps!

PaulM

-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Pfaff [mailto:blp@cs.stanford.edu]
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 2:44 PM
To: Brian Hoort
Cc: GLLUG Post
Subject: Re: [GLLUG] New Network Card


Brian Hoort <hoortbri@msu.edu> writes:

> If a person doesn't want to run custom kernels, is it possible to just
> use modules provided by the Debian distribution? In other words, if I
> was running the stock kernel, I could just install pcmcia-cs and the
> module for my NIC, reboot and be up and running, rather than having to
> get the source, apply the patch to the kernel, etc.?

There's a good chance that that would work.

> Or is it likely
> that on a laptop I'll have to compile my own kernel anyhow?

I doubt it.  Most laptops use pretty standard hardware these
days, besides video/audio/modem.

> How many of you are running custom compiled kernels vs. stock distro
ones?

I use a custom-compiled kernel, but I probably don't need to
anymore since my M700-specific patches made it into Linus's
releases many moons ago.
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