Network cards availability (again)

[Mark McCoy]

Mike Menefee wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > Does anyone on the list know where I can get a list of network cards that
> work
> > under RedHat 6?
> > I know about the 3com and tulip-based cards, but what about any others.
> > RedHat's support site has the hardware list for Intel, but not for Alpha
> (I've
> > already sent them an e-mail about it).  I need this to find out what ISA
> cards
> > are supported (10Mbit is fine for this card) since we will use up all of
> our PCI
> > slots in the master machine.
> 
> Might do a search on their site.. they have a thing about burying stuff
> sometimes.. also, might look for a general compat HOW-TO... (Never tried
> sticking Linux on an Alpha system, but I would expect the hardware list to
> be close to an Intel..)

In general, it is, except for network cards and video cards

> 
> >
> > Ideally, we want to use all tulip-based cards.  If anyone knows where we
> can get
> > 16 DEC-based cards, _pleeeaaasse_ let me know.  I have a lead on some
> cards made
> > by TrendNet.  Does anyone know if these are any good?  I have not even
> heard of
> > them.
> 
> Hmm.. this might be a bad memory on my part, but I think NetGear's 10BT card
> is DEC based... might look into it... They're prolly around $20 a pop now,
> and NetGear is Bay Networks, so...
> 
> > Thanks in advance!
> 
> Np.
> 
> MikeM

The Netgear cards used to be DEC, now they're some other (FPIC??) manufacturer.

-- 
Mark McCoy -- Proud to run Linux since February 1996
Systems Administrator - Cajun Brothers Technology, llc
The views in this message do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer
This message posted from snowdog, a 100% MS-free machine.