[ltp] What NIC to buy for Linux/BSD compatibility? [TP i1400 ]

[Dale P. Smith]

On Wed, 1 May 2002 12:30:36 +0100
Michael Selway <mas@ssl.co.uk> wrote:

> Dale P.Smith writes:
>  > Anyway.  The t21's have a lucent chipset modem.  There is a binary-only
>  > driver that some people have hacked with wrappers so it will run with
>  > other kernels than what it was compiled for.  It works great! 
> 
> Be careful here: I have a t21, wonderful in almost all respects,
> except the modem won't work under linux.  IBM ship these machines
> with different "mini pci" cards in them.  There are two varieties
> of modem on these, and mine is the 3Com one.  The ethernet support
> for the card is just fine, but there is no linux support for the
> modem.

Yes.  Here is the output of lscpi:

00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 09)
00:03.1 Serial controller: Xircom: Unknown device 000c

The lucent driver/patch does work for this.  Sorry about your 3com. :(

-Dale

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Dale P. Smith
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Senior Systems Consultant, Altus Technologies Corporation
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