Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] laptop, PCMCIA/mini-pci

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From: Hartmut Mueller <hartmut@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 11:50:05 +0100
On Wednesday, 28. February 2001 01:06, Mike R. Cannon wrote:
> The additional information I was able to obtain:
> pcmcia card:
> xircom
> cbe2-100btx

> So I have to choose between different product lines to get the 3com or
> "actiontech" internal card, neither of which will probably work under
> Linux. The inspiron actual has the better graphics display.  So if only one
> NIC is going to work, the one in the PCMCIA slot, is the cbe2-100btx worth
> my time or does someone have a good suggestion for a PCMCIA card?

Please have a look at 
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/pcmcia/SUPPORTED.CARDS (Last 
updated: 2001/01/17 01:10:37).

There is an entry for [tulip_cb driver] [x86]:

[ Not recommended: support is experimental and unreliable ]
	IBM 10/100 EtherJet CardBus
	Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 CardBus
	Xircom CBE2-100BTX, RBE-100BTX, R2BE-100BTX

Supported, but not recommended. You will find a lot of better supported cards.

Cheers, Hartmut