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Next Previous Contents Linux Ethernet-Howto by Paul Gortmaker v2.7, 5 May 2025 This is the Ethernet-Howto, which is a compilation of information about which ethernet devices can be used for Linux, and how to set them up. Note that this Howto is focused on the hardware and low level driver aspect of the ethernet cards, and does not cover the software end of things like ifconfig and route. See the Network Howto for that stuff. 1. Introduction 1.1 New Versions of this Document 1.2 Using the Ethernet-Howto 1.3 HELP - It doesn't work! 2. What card should I buy for Linux? 2.1 So What Drivers are Stable? 2.2 Eight bit vs 16 bit Cards 2.3 32 Bit (VLB/EISA/PCI) Ethernet Cards 2.4 Available 100Mbs Cards and Drivers 2.5 100VG versus 100BaseT 2.6 Type of cable that your card should support 3. Frequently Asked Questions 3.1 Alpha Drivers -- Getting and Using them 3.2 Using More than one Ethernet Card per Machine 3.3 The ether= thing didn't do anything for me. Why? 3.4 Problems with NE1000 / NE2000 cards (and clones) 3.5 Problems with SMC Ultra/EtherEZ and WD80*3 cards 3.6 Problems with 3Com cards 3.7 FAQs Not Specific to Any Card. 4. Performance Tips 4.1 General Concepts 4.2 ISA Cards and ISA Bus Speed 4.3 Setting the TCP Rx Window 4.4 Increasing NFS performance 5. Vendor/Manufacturer/Model Specific Information 5.1 3Com 5.2 Accton 5.3 Allied Telesyn/Telesis 5.4 AMD / Advanced Micro Devices 5.5 Ansel Communications 5.6 Apricot 5.7 Arcnet 5.8 AT&T 5.9 Boca Research 5.10 Cabletron 5.11 Cogent 5.12 Compaq 5.13 Danpex 5.14 D-Link 5.15 DFI 5.16 Digital / DEC 5.17 Farallon 5.18 Fujitsu 5.19 Hewlett Packard 5.20 IBM / International Business Machines 5.21 ICL Ethernet Cards 5.22 Intel Ethernet Cards 5.23 Kingston 5.24 LinkSys 5.25 Microdyne 5.26 Mylex 5.27 Novell Ethernet, NExxxx and associated clones. 5.28 Proteon 5.29 Pure Data 5.30 Racal-Interlan 5.31 RealTek 5.32 Sager 5.33 Schneider & Koch 5.34 SEEQ 5.35 SMC (Standard Microsystems Corp.) 5.36 Texas Instruments 5.37 Thomas Conrad 5.38 VIA 5.39 Western Digital 5.40 Winbond 5.41 Xircom 5.42 Zenith 5.43 Znyx 5.44 Identifying an Unknown Card 5.45 Drivers for Non-Ethernet Devices 6. Cables, Coax, Twisted Pair 6.1 Thin Ethernet (thinnet) 6.2 Twisted Pair 6.3 Thick Ethernet 7. Software Configuration and Card Diagnostics 7.1 Configuration Programs for Ethernet Cards 7.2 Diagnostic Programs for Ethernet Cards 8. Technical Information 8.1 Programmed I/O vs. Shared Memory vs. DMA 8.2 Writing a Driver 8.3 Driver interface to the kernel 8.4 Technical information from 3Com 8.5 Notes on AMD PCnet / LANCE Based cards 8.6 Multicast and Promiscuous Mode 8.7 The Berkeley Packet Filter (BPF) 9. Networking with a Laptop/Notebook Computer 9.1 Using SLIP 9.2 PCMCIA Support 9.3 ISA Ethercard in the Docking Station. 9.4 Pocket / parallel port adaptors. 10. Miscellaneous. 10.1 Passing Ethernet Arguments to the Kernel 10.2 Using the Ethernet Drivers as Modules 10.3 Related Documentation 10.4 Disclaimer and Copyright 10.5 Closing Next Previous Contents

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