Ethernet adapters vary greatly in performance. In general the newer the
design the better. Some very old cards like the 3Com 3c501 are only useful
because they can be found in junk heaps for $5 a time. Be careful
with clones, not all are good clones and bad clones often cause erratic
lockups under Linux. Read the Ethernet HOWTO,
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/, for detailed descriptions of various cards.
For ethernet cards with the DECchip DC21x4x family the "Tulip" driver is available. More information on this driver can be found at
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/tulip.html.
3Com 3c501 - ``avoid like the plague'' (3c501 driver)
3Com Etherlink III Vortex Ethercards (3c590, 3c592, 3c595, 3c597) (PCI),
3Com Etherlink XL Boomerang (3c900, 3c905) (PCI) and Cyclone (3c905B, 3c980) Ethercards (3c59x driver) and
3Com Fast EtherLink Ethercard (3c515) (ISA) (3c515 driver)
Newer versions of this drivers are available at
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
Avoid the 3c900 card when possible as the driver is not functioning well for this card.
3Com 3ccfe575 Cyclone Cardbus (3c59x driver)
3Com 3c575 series Cardbus (3c59x driver) (ALL PCMCIA ??)
AMD LANCE (79C960) / PCnet-ISA/PCI (AT1500, HP J2405A, NE1500/NE2100)
AT&T GIS WaveLAN
Allied Telesis AT1700
Allied Telesis LA100PCI-T
Allied Telesyn AT2400T/BT ("ne" module)
Ansel Communications AC3200 (EISA)
Apricot Xen-II / 82596
Cabletron E21xx
Cogent EM110
Crystal Lan CS8920, Cs8900
http://www.cirrus.com/private/drivers/ethernet/edrivers.html
Danpex EN-9400
DEC DE425 (EISA) / DE434/DE435 (PCI) / DE450/DE500 (DE4x5 driver)
DEC DE450/DE500-XA (dc21x4x) (Tulip driver)
DEC DEPCA and EtherWORKS
DEC EtherWORKS 3 (DE203, DE204, DE205)
DEC QSilver's (Tulip driver)
Digi International RightSwitch
DLink DE-220P, DE-528CT, DE-530+, DFE-500TX, DFE-530TX
More information at
http://www.dlink.ca/linux.html
Fujitsu FMV-181/182/183/184
HP PCLAN (27245 and 27xxx series)
HP PCLAN PLUS (27247B and 27252A)
HP 10/100VG PCLAN (J2577, J2573, 27248B, J2585) (ISA/EISA/PCI)
More information at
http://cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov:80/linux/drivers/100vg.html
ICL EtherTeam 16i / 32 (EISA)
Intel EtherExpress
Intel EtherExpress Pro
KTI ET16/P-D2, ET16/P-DC ISA (work jumperless and with hardware-configuration options)
Macromate MN-220P (PnP or NE2000 mode)
NCR WaveLAN
NE2000/NE1000 (be careful with clones)
Netgear FA-310TX (Tulip chip)
New Media Ethernet
PureData PDUC8028, PDI8023
SEEQ 8005
SMC Ultra / EtherEZ (ISA)
SMC 9000 series
SMC PCI EtherPower 10/100 (Tulip driver)
SMC EtherPower II (epic100.c driver)
Sun LANCE adapters (kernel 2.2 and newer)
Sun Intel adapters (kernel 2.2 and newer)
Schneider & Koch G16
Western Digital WD80x3
Zenith Z-Note / IBM ThinkPad 300 built-in adapter
Znyx 312 etherarray (Tulip driver)
ISDN
Linux ISDN WWW page
This page seems to be gone ??
ISDN4Linux tools are available from
ftp://ftp.franken.de/pub/isdn4linux/v2.0
For more information on Linux and use of the parallel port, go to the Linux Parallel Port Home Page
http://www.torque.net/linux-pp.html or
http://www.torque.net/parport/. Check Appendix C for a complete list of supported parallel port devices (excluding printers)
Slotless
SLIP/CSLIP/PPP (serial port)
EQL (serial IP load balancing)
PLIP (parallel port) - using ``LapLink cable'' or bi-directional cable
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