linux and intel network cards

linux and intel network cards

[Nick Gawronski]

      Hi, I just got done installing linux slackware 8.0 on my desktop and
am thinking about getting dsl, I have an intel pro r100 network card and I
am wondering if I can use it with linux?  I looked in the kernel
configuration but could not find no intel cards and that is odd because
intel is very popular and that is what I don't understand, they should be
supported if they are not all ready.  bye
My web page address is http://www.nickgawronski.com and that is where
Chihuahua Radio the internet radio station is located

Re: linux and intel network cards

[Adam Myrow]

It's in the kernel, but it's horribly unreliable with older kernels.  I'd
suggest that you install at least kernel 2.4.18 if you're going to use
that card as they worked a lot on that driver.  Alternately, there may
still be the driver on Intel's web site.  The one in the kernel is called
"Ether Express PRO 100" I believe.  Since it's Slackware, try running
netconfig as root and see if you can get it to pick up your NIC.

Re: linux and intel network cards

[Scott Howell]

You know its funn, if we're all talking about the same card, a pci card,
I've been using that card with a 2.2 kernel for a while now and haven't
had one lick of trouble with it..hmm interesting.
Maybe there's something I just don't know about..<grin>

Re: linux and intel network cards

[Adam Myrow]

The Intel card I experimented with was actually an on-board card that was
listed as an Etherexpress PRO 100/VE if I remember right.  The thing would
lock up the machine tight with no error message whatsoever.  Occasionally,
just before the hang, I'd get some errors about a timeout on the console.
I ended up using an Intel driver and all my problems went away.  This was
with the 2.2.19 and 2.4.10 kernels under Slackware 8.0.  I really don't
know if the situation is better now for sure, but I do know that looking
at the Change Logs for the kernels up to 2.4.19 indicates that a lot of
work has gone into that particular driver, so I suspect it's better now.

Re: linux and intel network cards

[Scott Howell]

Sure, in the kernel config either menu config under networking devices
or the standard kernel config,
look for the following.

   EISA, VLB, PCI and on board controllers                        
On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 04:39:55PM -0500, Nick Gawronski wrote:

now look for 

 EtherExpressPro/100 support 

and that should do it.

>       Hi, I just got done installing linux slackware 8.0 on my desktop and
> am thinking about getting dsl, I have an intel pro r100 network card and I
> am wondering if I can use it with linux?  I looked in the kernel
> configuration but could not find no intel cards and that is odd because
> intel is very popular and that is what I don't understand, they should be
> supported if they are not all ready.  bye
> My web page address is http://www.nickgawronski.com and that is where
> Chihuahua Radio the internet radio station is located
> 
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Re: linux and intel network cards

[Kerry Hoath]

Intel cards are supported.
Intel Pro Express 100 cards are s upported;
modprobe epro100 if you have it as a module should just go.
On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 04:39:55PM -0500, Nick Gawronski wrote:
>       Hi, I just got done installing linux slackware 8.0 on my desktop and
> am thinking about getting dsl, I have an intel pro r100 network card and I
> am wondering if I can use it with linux?  I looked in the kernel
> configuration but could not find no intel cards and that is odd because
> intel is very popular and that is what I don't understand, they should be
> supported if they are not all ready.  bye
> My web page address is http://www.nickgawronski.com and that is where
> Chihuahua Radio the internet radio station is located
> 
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Off topic: ebook formats

[Patricia Logan]

     Hi!  I just read about a free book library of science 
fiction/fantasy available on line.  Unfortunately, the only 
formats offered are Microsoft or graphic.  If any of you on this 
list enjoy those genres of fiction I would appreciate you joining 
me in complaining and lobbying for accessability.  Why shouldn't 
a free resource be available to those who use free software?

     Thanks.

baen free library at
http://www.baen.com/library/baen 
     A disappointed and frustrated

     Pat Logan

Off topic: ebook formats

[Ann Parsons]

Hi all,

Pat, the book I saw on the Baen site was in HTML. 

Ann P.

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Re: Off topic: ebook formats

[Ross Eadie]

Hi Patricia,

You seem to have given the wrong web address.  It is as follows:

www.baen.com/library/

At 08:03 AM 9/7/02 , you wrote:
>     Hi!  I just read about a free book library of science 
>fiction/fantasy available on line.  Unfortunately, the only 
>formats offered are Microsoft or graphic.  If any of you on this 
>list enjoy those genres of fiction I would appreciate you joining 
>me in complaining and lobbying for accessability.  Why shouldn't 
>a free resource be available to those who use free software?
>
>     Thanks.
>
>baen free library at
>http://www.baen.com/library/baen 
>     A disappointed and frustrated
>
>     Pat Logan
>
>
>
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Re: Off topic: ebook formats

[Ross Eadie]

I know, my last post on this topic.  I was reading some of the material on
the www.baen.com web site and came across the following text which should
make you happy Patricia:

Expanding the available formats

We have no plans at present to expand the formats available, although we
are looking
into the question of whether some additions or changes might be helpful to
readers
who are blind or otherwise disabled.
If we make any changes or additions, that will be our top priority.
Since most of the questions around this involve PDF, I can say that we will
not be
adding a PDF format in the foreseeable future.
            The reason is as simple as it gets.
This Library is maintained through the good graces of Baen Books, which is
(for all
practical purposes) owned and operated by a man named Jim Baen. One of the
"perks"
of Jim's status is that he gets to make the final decisions.
  And Jim detests PDF.
            In his own words:
A few words on .PDF:
Adobe Acrobat ==>> pdf files. I don't know what all the perceived virtues
of Acrobat
are, except that supposedly it will suck Word and spit Word Perfect or
something.
Why I don't like it:
Acrobat allows you to design and print pages as if you were the editorial
staff of
Time Inc. complete with pictures and flowing text and captions in funny
types and
whatnot, just exactly the way the Publications Design Department wants. For
this
reason (I suppose) Design Depts just love it to pieces and flog it
everywhere, and
assume that everyone else will love it and its output too.
The thing is, it is not what you would call empowering to the end consumer.
What
it does, is generate files, .pdf files, that are extremely opaque to
standard word
processing software, so that if, for example, you downloaded Time's table
of contents,
you would be stuck with that appearance: no changes allowed, or possible.
Can't change
the margins, can't change font sizes, can't grab text for pasting, can't
anything.
Thus if we wanted to present a PDF file we would have to make every single
decision
that God intended for users to make for him (or her! or her! But I
digress...:).
Anyway, the text would have to be X wide, placed to the pixel just so with
an anchor
point
there
 on the screen when you look at it. Straight jacket city. Now me, I find
this anathematic.
Sometimes, when my sinuses are going, I don't much care about proportions
or whatever:
I want everything bigger than everything else, starting at 16 point
on-screen. I
want my text to be
whatever size I find comfortable!!!
But with PDF you cannot do that. What you see is what you... see. And for
some reason
the designers always use a font that might be called Ten Point Terminal
Myopic because
it will print nicely on paper. Of course if you want to just read it on a
screen,
too bad. Squint.
This is why we offer, at my insistence and in spite of my cohort's mild
negativity,
RTF files. Why? Well, bluntly because Word reads them. So do some other
word processing
progs, I'm told. This means that those word processors treat .RTF files as
native
, and you can do anything with them that your wp prog can do with its
files. Pick
fonts, pick margins, font-size, color, color background, space between
lines -- anything.
Now it seems to me that this is the way text should be offered: just
exactly the
way you want it. In a sense, you become a publisher when you read a Baen
e-file text.
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Re: Off topic: ebook formats

[Adam Myrow]

However, is there any known Linux program that can read RTF files
reliably?  Also, that is still a Microsoft format that AFAIK is
proprietary and closed.

Re: Off topic: ebook formats

[Erik Heil]

RTF format?  As far as I know, RTF is not a closed format--I remember seeing
documentation as to how its implemented, even to the degree of the actual
standard.

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Subject: Re: Off topic: ebook formats


> However, is there any known Linux program that can read RTF files
> reliably?  Also, that is still a Microsoft format that AFAIK is
> proprietary and closed.
>
>
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Re: Off topic: ebook formats

[Ross Eadie]

Ok.  One more post.  All the books are in html as well.


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Re: Off topic: ebook formats

[Buddy Brannan]

If the books are RTF files, I believe I have here (somewhere) a
RTF2html converter. That doesn't mean i remember where I got the thing
though. ... :) If you want it and can't find it, I'll send it to you.
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