GX150 network card options

The onboard NIC in the GX150 is Linux compatable.  There are no issues.

Easiest way is to use a USB nic. ADMtek AN986 Pegasus USB to ethernet driver

The chip is used by the following adapters:

NETGEAR FA101 

Billionton Systems USB100
           D-Link DSB-650TX
           LinkSys USB100TX
           Melco Inc. LU-ATX
           SMC 2202USB

The driver is called aue, there's an aue(4) man page

NETGEAR FA101 USB to Ethernet adapter

http://tekgems.com/Products/tg-et-11628-net-fa101-r.htm?frg

http://www.scyld.com/usb_ethernet.html

# Transfer the Scyld USB 2.2 back-port
rpm -i usb-0.2-3.src.rpm
# Build the binary version for your kernel
cd /usr/src/{redhat|TurboLinux}/
rpm -bb SPECS/usb-0.2.spec
# Now install it your newly built package.
rpm -i RPMS/i386/usb-0.2-1.i386.rpm
# Try both types of USB controllers, only one will load.
modprobe usb-uhci usb-ohci
modprobe usb-boot; modprobe usb-floppy; modprobe pegasus; modprobe catc

You can verify this yourself with a Linspire Live BOOT CD.

http://media.linspire.com/cnr_linspirelive/

Not sure what you are trying to do but it appears you do not know how to setup linux.

Even Toms RT BT linux on a floppy works fine with the GX150 nic.

http://www.toms.net/rb/

Bus/Device/Function  ID (Subsys ID) Device name
Class code: Class/Subclass
----------------------------------------------------------
0/0x0/0 8086,1130 (1028,be) Intel Corp. 82815 815 Chipset Host Bridge and Memory Controller Hub
Class 0x60000: Bridge/Host bridge

0/0x2/0 8086,1132 (1028,be) Intel Corp. 82815 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller]
Class 0x30000: Display controller/VGA compatible controller

0/0x1e/0 8086,244e Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB/EB/ER Hub interface to PCI Bridge
Class 0x60400: Bridge/PCI bridge

http://support.3com.com/infodeli/inotes/techtran/5a96_5ea.htm

1/0xc/0 10b7,9200 (1028,be) 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado]
Class 0x20000: Network controller/Ethernet controller

The 3C90x NIC driver for Linux supports the following EtherLink NICs:

3C905C Family and 3C920 ASICs EtherLink 10/100
3C905B Family and 3C918 ASICs EtherLink 10/100
3C905B-COMBO EtherLink 10/100

3C980C-TX EtherLink Server 10/100 PCI
3C980B-TX EtherLink Server 10/100 PCI
3C980-TX EtherLink Server 10/100 PCI

3C905B-FX EtherLink 100 PCI Fiber

3C900B-TPO EtherLink 10 PCI TPO
3C900B-TPC EtherLink 10 PCI TPC
3C900B-COMBO EtherLink 10 PCI COMBO
3C900B-FL EtherLink 10 PCI Fiber

The 3c590/3c592/3c595/3c597 and 3C905 Families are supported
with the 3c59x driver from Donald Becker. Technical support for the
3c59x Linux driver can be found at:

URL: http://www.scyld.com/network/

The raw driver is here

ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/3c59x.c

This driver is for the 3Com "Vortex" and "Boomerang" series ethercards.
Members of the series include Fast EtherLink 3c590/3c592/3c595/3c597
and the EtherLink XL 3c900 and 3c905 cards.

0/0x1f/0 8086,2440 Intel Corp. 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC)
Class 0x60100: Bridge/ISA bridge

0/0x1f/1 8086,244b Intel Corp. 82801BA IDE U100
Class 0x10180: Mass storage controller/IDE interface

0/0x1f/2 8086,2442 Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #1)
Class 0xc0300: Serial bus controller/USB Controller

0/0x1f/3 8086,2443 Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM SMBus
Class 0xc0500: Serial bus controller/SMBus

0/0x1f/4 8086,2444 Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #2)
Class 0xc0300: Serial bus controller/USB Controller

0/0x1f/5 8086,2445 (1028,be) Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio
Class 0x40100: Multimedia controller/Multimedia audio controller

Message Edited by SpeedStep on 11-03-2005 02:22 PM