[ILUG] Identifying network card?

[John Gay]

On Sunday 29 July 2001 18:23, you wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 12:02:18PM +0100, John Gay came forth with:
> > I just purchased 5 PC's I want to set up as quasi-diskless workstations
> > with unknown network cards in them. I was hoping that someone here would
> > know what cards they are. The indentifying marks are:
> >
> > DE305 Rev:A02
> > Made in Taiwan
> > FCC ID: HFD1660ENR01LCT
> >
> > The only chip on them is:
> >
> > MPX^2
> > EN5025A
>
> I would suspect they are macronix cards, so try the tulip driver. But I
> dunno.
>
> What does linux give in /proc/pci?
>
It's an ISA card. 

Deim Agoston <ago at idg.hu> said:

>> MPX^2
>> EN5025A
>
>^^^^^^^^^^^
>It seems to me that's a SMC card from the EZ Card series. I didn't have
>problem with EN5030A chip. The kernel uses the rtl8139 module, as I remember.
>

A google search confirmed this, but I could not get either the rtl8139 or 
rtl8029 bootimages to work. Rather than spend too much time with this, I'll 
just get some 3COM cards instead, as I know they work with Linux.


> L.

Thanks for the help. Anyone got some old 3COM cards going cheap?

Cheers,

	John Gay