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://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/, for detailed descriptions of various cards.
Ethernet
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''
- 3Com 3C503, 3C505, 3C507, 3C509/3C509B (ISA) / 3C579 (EISA)
- 3Com Etherlink III Vortex Ethercards (3C590, 3c592, 3C595, 3c597) (PCI),
3Com Etherlink XL Boomerang Ethercards (3c900, 3c905) (PCI) and
3Com Fast EtherLink Ethercard (3c515) (ISA)
Newer versions of this driver 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.
- AMD LANCE (79C960) / PCnet-ISA/PCI (AT1500, HP J2405A, NE1500/NE2100)
- AT&T GIS WaveLAN
- Allied Telesis AT1700
- Allied Telesis LA100PCI-T
- 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 (Tulip driver)
- DEC DEPCA and EtherWORKS
- DEC EtherWORKS 3
- DEC QSilver's (Tulip driver)
- 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)
- 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)
- Schneider & Koch G16
- Western Digital WD80x3
- Zenith Z-Note / IBM ThinkPad 300 built-in adapter
- Znyx 312 etherarray (Tulip driver)
ISDN
- 3Com Sonix Arpeggio
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/network/sonix.tgz
- ASUSCOM Network Inc. ISDNLink 128K PC adapter (HiSax)
- AVM A1 (HiSax)
- Combinet EVERYWARE 1000 ISDN
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/kernel/patches/network/combinet1000isdn-1.02.tar.gz
- Compaq ISDN S0 (ISA) (HiSax)
- Creatix PnP S0 (HiSax)
- Dr. Neuhaus Niccy PnP/PCI (HiSax)
- Dynalink IS64PH (HiSax)
- Eicon.Diehl Diva 2.0 ISA and PCI (S0 and U interface, no PRO version) (HiSax)
- Eicon.Diehl Diva Piccola (HiSax)
- Elsa Microlink PCC-16, PCF, PCF-Pro, PCC-8 (HiSax)
- ELSA QuickStep 1000/1000PCI/3000 (HiSax)
- HFC-2BS0 based cards (HiSax)
- IBM Active 2000 (ISA) (act2000)
- ICN ISDN cards (icn)
- Ith Kommunikationstechnik GmbH MIC 16 (ISA) (HiSax)
- ITK ix1-micro Rev.2 (HiSax)
- Octal PCBIT (pcbit)
- Sedlbauer Speed Card (HiSax)
- Teles 8.0/16.0/16.3 and compatible ones (HiSax)
- Teles 16.3c (HiSax)
- Teles S0 (HiSax)
- Traverse Technologie NETjet PCI S0 (HiSax)
- USR Sportster internal TA (HiSax)
ISDN cards that emulate standard modems or common Ethernet adapters don't need any special drivers to work.
Pocket and portable adapters
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
Slotless
- SLIP/CSLIP/PPP (serial port)
- EQL (serial IP load balancing)
- PLIP (parallel port) - using ``LapLink cable'' or bi-directional cable
ARCnet
- Works with all ARCnet cards
TokenRing
- Any IBM tokenring card not using DMA
- IBM Tropic chipset cards
- Madge TokenRing OCI 16/4 Mk2
FDDI
- DEC DEFEA (EISA) / DEFPA (PCI) (kernel 2.0.24 and later)
Amateur radio (AX.25)
- Gracilis PackeTwin
- Ottawa PI/PI2
- Most generic 8530 based HDLC boards
PCMCIA cards
- See Appendix B for complete list
Ethernet
- Racal-Interlan NI5210 (i82586 Ethernet chip). Avoid this card. It is not functioning properly with the current driver.
- Racal-Interlan NI6510 (am7990 lance chip). Starting with kernel 1.3.66 more than 16Mb Ram is supported.
- Racal-Interlan PCI card (AMD PC net chip 97c970) ??
ISDN
- SpellCaster's Datacomute/BRI, Telecomute/BRI (ISA) (sc)
ATM
Frame Relay
Wireless
- Xircom adapters (PCMCIA and parallel port)
- IBM PCI Token Ring cards (all of them)
- Sysconnect / Schneider & Koch Token Ring cards (all of them)