
13. Network adapters
13.1. Supported
13.1.1. Ethernet
Ethernet adapters vary greatly in performance. In general the newer the design the better. Some very old cards
like the 3Com 3c501 are only useful because they can be found in junk heaps for $5 a time. Be careful with
clones, not all are good clones and bad clones often cause erratic lockups under Linux. Read the Ethernet
HOWTO for detailed descriptions of various cards.
For ethernet cards with the DECchip DC21x4x family the "Tulip" driver is available. More information on
this driver can be found at Donald Becker's site.
3Com 3c501 − "avoid like the plague" (3c501 driver)•
3Com 3c503 (3c503 driver), 3c505 (3c505 driver), 3c507 (3c507 driver), 3c509/3c509B (ISA) / 3c579
(EISA)
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3Com Etherlink III Vortex Ethercards (3c590, 3c592, 3c595, 3c597) (PCI), 3Com Etherlink XL
Boomerang (3c900, 3c905) (PCI) and Cyclone (3c905B, 3c980) Ethercards (3c59x driver) and 3Com
Fast EtherLink Ethercard (3c515) (ISA) (3c515 driver) Newer versions of this drivers are available at
Donald Becker's site Avoid the 3c900 card when possible as the driver is not functioning well for this
card.
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3Com 3ccfe575 Cyclone Cardbus (3c59x driver)•
3Com 3c575 series Cardbus (3c59x driver) (ALL PCMCIA ??)•
AMD LANCE (79C960) / PCnet−ISA/PCI (AT1500, HP J2405A, NE1500/NE2100)•
AT&T GIS WaveLAN•
Allied Telesis AT1700•
Allied Telesis LA100PCI−T•
Allied Telesyn AT2400T/BT ("ne" module)•
Ansel Communications AC3200 (EISA)•
Apricot Xen−II / 82596•
Cabletron E21xx•
Cogent EM110•
Crystal Lan CS8920, Cs8900 (driver)•
Danpex EN−9400•
DEC DE425 (EISA) / DE434/DE435 (PCI) / DE450/DE500 (DE4x5 driver)•
DEC DE450/DE500−XA (dc21x4x) (Tulip driver)•
DEC DEPCA and EtherWORKS•
DEC EtherWORKS 3 (DE203, DE204, DE205)•
DEC QSilver's (Tulip driver)•
Digi International RightSwitch•
DLink DE−220P, DE−528CT, DE−530+, DFE−500TX, DFE−530TX•
Fujitsu FMV−181/182/183/184•
HP PCLAN (27245 and 27xxx series)•
HP PCLAN PLUS (27247B and 27252A)•
HP 10/100VG PCLAN (J2577, J2573, 27248B, J2585) (ISA/EISA/PCI) Driver here, more information
at Donald Becker's site
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ICL EtherTeam 16i / 32 (EISA)•
Intel EtherExpress•
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