[wplug] Realtek problems (was: Which network card?)

[Rick Smith]

On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 11:00:06AM -0400, John Harrold wrote:
> Sometime in May Rick Smith assaulted the keyboard and produced:
> 
> | Was it flaky hardware or ?   Was it driver problems?
> 
> honestly i don't know if it was hardware or software. after moderate
> network use, the computer would just seize requiring me to hit the reset
> switch. i swapped the realtek  out for either an eepro or 3com and had no
> problems. also, i had problems a long time ago with another realtek. the
> whole expirence left me with a bad taste in my mouth.  you should really
> get feedback from others though-statistics with n=1 are not very reliable.
> if it's in a laptop, you should probably be able to get more info about
> that system on www.linux-laptop.net.

Thanks.  That's the maddening part about laptops .. not easy to swap
hardware.  I have poked around a bit and do see that there are problems,
but also that the beowulf/network guy supports it working.

On the other hand, I'll probably use the wireless more often
than the wired version, and that is a Prism 2.5 chip that seems
to be well (enough) supported.

-- Rick