About the 2 macs and 1 linux on a LAN

[John F. Kohler]

Thanks, Frank,

It was good to hear that someone was successful with "tulip" even though
I'll give up. My son is a Windows95/98 user, and since the DOS program
Q-start worked ok with the Kensington NIC, I'll bet that dos/windows users
will be successful.

I had planned to use the NE2000 cards one at a time, but had not a clue
how to start the setup.  I'll be aware of the io address and that it will
find the IRQ.

If timing is the bugaboo, maybe a 16 bit card working at 10 mbits/sec will
work better than a 32 bit card working at 100 mb/sec.  I hope.

If I were to try a new kernel, I'd try the ones in RPM format, which I
understand and can get to work for a bunch of updates.  I am totally
ignorant of how to download source code
and compile it before installing.  Probably have to wait for the next beta
issue of Red Hat.

John



E Frank Ball wrote:

> John,
>
> I talked to somebody today who had trouble with a "tulip" card.  She
> said it wouldn't work by loading the tulip kernel module, but it worked
> when she compiled a kernel with it built in.
>
> Also I don't know if you can get two ne2000 cards working at the same
> time.  Using two of the same card only works with certain cards.
> Getting one of them to work should be easy.  Since they are ISA cards
> they cannot autoprobe and you will have to specify the address.  They
> can usually find the IRQ ok.  If you don't know the address io=0x300 is
> a good guess.
>
> I wouldn't worry about kernel upgrading unless you need to recompile,
> then I would stay away from the Redhat kernels and compile a generic
> kernel from kernel.org.
>
>    E Frank Ball                frankb at efball.com