shops stocking Linux (was Re: [ILUG] q3test and games )

[Paul McCourt (Halcyon)]

I got a Genuis NE2000III card from the local Compu'whore in Dundalk and she
had no problem under RH4.1 and 5.

It cost me the guts of £15 and the amazing thing was that it had actual
Linux install instructions/troubleshooting insert.

Don't see 3Com or Intel doing that!

-----Original Message-----
From: jm at jmason.org [mailto:jm at jmason.org]
Sent: 22 November 1999 13:16
To: ilug at linux.ie
Subject: shops stocking Linux (was Re: [ILUG] q3test and games )



Donncha O Caoimh said:

> There are also a few Linux distributions in [Game]. I saw a boxed
> Mandrake 6.1 complete with 4 Macmillan Linux books on CD, as well as (I
> think) Caldera Linux. Reasonably priced too.

On the other side of things, I dropped into Compustore on Stephen's Green
in Dublin last week, on the way back from the dentist, and had a very
unsatisfactory shop experience:

    me: do you have any recent Linux distros? (to save the ftp'ing ;)
    him: no.
    me: do you have *any* Linux distros?
    him: nup.
    me: any idea what chipset these dodgy-looking ethernet cards use?
    him: nup
    [...]

This went on for a while regarding various bits of hardware, software etc.
Very crap. I hope their bigger stores have a bit more clue than that one.

But that raises the question -- there have been a few dodgy-looking really
cheap ethernet cards around, made by Trust, Genius and the usual suspects.
Has anyone here tried them under Linux? Are they Winethernet cards ;) or
just cheapie NE2000 clones that'll work fine?

--j.

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