Parallel Port Ethernet, Which Brand?

Parallel Port Ethernet, Which Brand?

Post by Somsak Limavongphan » Mon, 04 Jul 1994 16:46:12



Hello,
        I looked faq about ethernet card that can work with linux but
I didn't see any info about parallel port ethernet.

Can anyone suggest me which brand will work well with linux?
Any comment about performance and reliability will be appreciated!

Thank

Somsak

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Parallel Port Ethernet, Which Brand?

Post by Donald Beck » Wed, 06 Jul 1994 00:41:28




>    I looked faq about ethernet card that can work with linux but
>I didn't see any info about parallel port ethernet.

>Can anyone suggest me which brand will work well with linux?
>Any comment about performance and reliability will be appreciated!

The Ethernet HowTo contains this information.

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1. Brand new Sun Fire V120 - can't find ethernet ports

I've just setup a V120 and it seems OK, except that it doesn't see the
ethernet ports.  I started by connecting the "Net 0" port to a hub (which
is live and connected to the rest of the network) and the "LINK" light came
on.  Then booted up (for the first time) and tried to do the network
config - and it kept saying there was an error setting the IP address on
the interface.  Eventually, after playing this game for a while (trying
various answers to the questions), I told it that it wasn't networked and
was able to get it setup and logged in as root.  Then, I did: ifconfig -a
and it says lo0 (loopback) is the only device.  Note that throughout all
this, the LINK light glowed peacefully.

Barring an actual hardware problem, is there some software/LOM/OpenBoot
"magic bullet" to make it work?

P.S.  As far as I can tell, the interfaces should be eri0 and eri1.  We
also did the various hardware tests (obdiag) in the OpenBoot and they all
reported success.

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4. access to floppy

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8. Disabling the boot logo

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