[NCLUG] 3com nic card ?

[kensharon.morris at att.net]

Has anyone configured a 3com 3CSOHO100-Tx Nic card
on Linux.
I am using Mandrake 7.2...can't get Linux to recognize
the NIC card...works on Windows95 dual boot.

ken
> > > Its usually a bit worse than that.  The sound card /is/ the modem.
> You
> > > make the soundcard generate modem-like sounds, then pipe it through
> a
> > > little bit of glue circuitry, and you have a cheap modem.  The
> problem
> > > is that you work out the processor trying to create modem-sounding
> > > waveforms for the sound card.
> > >
> > > Welcome to the world of Winmodems!  You might have noticed that
> Printers
> > > are getting cheap, too?  Instead of the printer having a brain, the
> > > computer is expected to do all the work.  The printer is little more
> > > than the mechanism.  Again, it makes it cheap, but it makes them
> hard on
> > > the processor, and a nightmare to write drivers for.
> >
> > Hmmm, I thought that "winmodems" were a more general term for certain
> > plug-and-play thingies that are practically inconfgurable in Linux.
> 
> In general.  I would say that a Winmodem is any modem that offloads its
> operation onto the host processor.  Any modem that is not
> self-contained.  Its not so much the plug-and-playness of the modems, so
> much as the not-a-real-serial-port issue.
> 
> > I've dealt with PCI cards which evidently fall into this category.  I
> > HATE them.  But then, I might be confused, because the site below
> seems
> > to define "winmodems" differently.  I've also noticed that ISA modems
> > are a lot more expensive these days.
> 
> I bought a non-winmodem PCI card from US Robotics.  The funny thing is,
> they sell non-winmodems to windows users as "built in processor -- frees
> up more CPU for your games!"  It works great, so long as you are running
> 2.3 or above... and I'm not.  And the latest serial driver doesn't
> backport to 2.2.18 yet, sooo...
> 
> Modems suck.  I want ethernet everywhere!!
> 
> Oh, and the price of ISA cards is probably a supply/demand kind of thing
> more than anything.  Have you noticed that pc133 memory is cheaper than
> pc100?  You can put pc133 memory into a pc100 machine...
> 
> > And yes, I have noticed that certain modern printers are becoming
> > nightmarish to deal with, especially with PS jobs, and/or over a LAN.
> 
> There's a linux printing site, similar to the linmodems site.  It
> summarizes how useless certain printers are.  It used to be that any PS
> printer was safe -- now, it appears that some printers that SAY they are
> postscript are just sent with ghostscript attached to the Windows
> drivers...
> 
> > GRR.  We did just buy a Lexmark Z-52, which actually has Linux drivers
> > and even a GUI installation program - Not bad.  Setting up the remote
> > lpd wasn't quite so simple, though.
> 
> I'm trying to set one of those up right now... Mostly the problem is
> that I seem to lack a parallel port... and I'm certainly not trying to
> futz with USB!
> 
> > > http://linmodems.org/ - for great justice!
> >
> > What you say!!  I've already seen this site.  Still, I don't know if I
> > want to deal with it (this is a "favor" for a friend, and I have too
> > many "friends" asking for "favors" like this, resulting in massive
> time
> 
> Winmodems aren't worth your sanity.  You/he would probably be happier
> with a real modem, but then you have to go out /shopping/ for a 'real'
> modem.  And that is just as large of a nightmare...
> 
> 
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