[TriLUG] USB ethernet adapters

Jeff Jackowski jeffj1 at hiwaay.net
Tue Jan 21 01:53:23 EST 2003


Quoting Chris Bullock <cgbullock at cox.net>:

> I have a pc that keeps killing pci ethernet cards, this is a pc
> dual-booting 
> win98 and mandrake 9.0.  I want to install a USB ethernet adapter and 
> wondering if the group had any suggestions.  I am currently looking at
> the  
> D-Link Systems USB 2.0 10/100 Fast Ethernet Adapter
> Model: DUB-E100.  It does not state that it is compatable with Linux but
> hopefully it is.  Yes, I am asking because it is the cheapest USB
> adapter I 
> could find.

It probably is compatible. It probably uses a Pegasus chip set. I could be wrong.

In any case, you might want to have the murders of the PCI cards investigated.
They might not be the last items to suffer that fate.

Jeff Jackowski
http://ro.com/~jeffj/



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