Compatible Ethernet Cards

[nathan r. hruby]

On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Michael Graham wrote:

> Does anyone have a list of compatible cards? I know the controller 
> chips are listed on the YD site but which manf. are best? Anyhow with 
> experience using 3com cards? I have an Asante and it seems to time out 
> constantly on outside connections coming into my web/www/telnet servers.
> 
> Any suggestions would be helpful.
> 

I have a 3Com 3c905 in a PM9600/MP and it works falwlessly as the primary 
enthernet adaptor.  The YDL 2.3 installer will even see it at install time 
but there's a bug where if you don't setup the onboard card, the isntaller 
will write the info you gave for the second adapter to the forst as well 
and try to bring them both up at boot time, which will yield in problems.  
the solution is to simply edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 
and disable it at boot and make sure that 
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 has the correct information

HTH

-n
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