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by **Brian R. Kneebo** » Mon, 16 Jul 2001 13:40:26

Any suggestions for a 10/100 NIC supported by Linux PPC? Do the cards
have to be Macintosh compatible? Running this off a PowerMac 7500
(upgraded to 604e 200 MHz).

Regards,

Brian R. Kneebone

by **Josef Kolbitsc** » Mon, 16 Jul 2001 05:53:08

Quote:> Any suggestions for a 10/100 NIC supported by Linux PPC?

cards with a realtek-chip or a dec-chip are well supported by linux.
(any flavor i know.) look into the lib/modules/linux-2.x.x/net
directory for a 'list' of supported nics.

the cheapest nic will be a realtek-based card.

Quote:> Do the cards have to be Macintosh compatible?

no, they don't. in fact, it depends on what you mean with
"Macintosh compatible". the macintosh has to cope with the
pci-card. so if it is a card that interferes with any other
pci-devices, you have a problem. (although there is no
pci-nic that does pose problems on a powermac.)

if you want to use the card also with mac os, you have to check
out, if there is a mac os-driver for it. drivers exist for
realtek-nics.

Quote:> Running this off a PowerMac 7500 (upgraded to 604e 200 MHz).

i haven't tried it with exactly _this_ configuration, but i think
it should work!

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by **uber** » Mon, 16 Jul 2001 11:25:59

The LinuxPPC distro only supports Tulip for addon ethernet cards. If you
build your own kernel though, you can use most 3com 3c905 series and Intel
eepro based cards also.

While video and scsi cards have a PC bios on them, ethernet cards mostly
just work. Not only that, some video and scsi cards can be turned on by our
kernels but just can't be used for booting.

> Any suggestions for a 10/100 NIC supported by Linux PPC? Do the cards
> have to be Macintosh compatible? Running this off a PowerMac 7500
> (upgraded to 604e 200 MHz).

> Regards,

> Brian R. Kneebone

by **Josef Kolbitsc** » Mon, 16 Jul 2001 18:00:07

> While video and scsi cards have a PC bios on them, ethernet cards mostly
> just work. Not only that, some video and scsi cards can be turned on by our
> kernels but just can't be used for booting.

it's quite the same on the alpha platform. the point is: if you
want to use a device for booting or from the _very_beginning_
(before booting an os), open firmware (or whatever) will have
to recognise the device.

if you just want to use it under linux and don't need it for
booting, it will do, if the device is recognised by linux (and
a driver is available).

so if you don't want to use netboot with the new nic, it is enough
if the card is recognised by linux and a driver is available.

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by **Toby Thai** » Wed, 18 Jul 2001 23:11:58

> Any suggestions for a 10/100 NIC supported by Linux PPC? Do the cards
> have to be Macintosh compatible? Running this off a PowerMac 7500
> (upgraded to 604e 200 MHz).

I use an Intel EtherExpress 10/100 fine under LinuxPPC (with custom
kernel configured to include that driver). There are certain Tulip based
(Farallon/Netgear IIRC) 10/100 cards which also have Mac drivers. See
their web site for product codes.

T

by **Brian R. Kneebo** » Thu, 19 Jul 2001 14:06:17

> > Any suggestions for a 10/100 NIC supported by Linux PPC? Do the cards
> > have to be Macintosh compatible? Running this off a PowerMac 7500
> > (upgraded to 604e 200 MHz).

> I use an Intel EtherExpress 10/100 fine under LinuxPPC (with custom
> kernel configured to include that driver). There are certain Tulip based
> (Farallon/Netgear IIRC) 10/100 cards which also have Mac drivers. See
> their web site for product codes.

> T

Do I have to recompile a kernel to use the first card? If so I wouldn't
even know where to begin. I've never done it before. I just load the
kernel 2.2.18-hpmac that came with my linux-ppc CD.

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