Supported Boards

A complete list of supported boards is available in the Ethernet HOWTOs posted monthly to comp.os.linux.announce by Paul Gortmaker.

Here's a list of the more widely-known boards supported by Linux. The actual list in the HOWTO is about three times longer. However, even if you find your board in this list, check the HOWTO first; there are sometimes important details about operating these cards. A case in point is the case of some DMA-based Ethernet boards that use the same DMA channel as the Adaptec 1542 SCSI controller by default. Unless you move either of them to a different DMA channel, you will wind up with the Ethernet board writing packet data to arbitrary locations on your hard disk.

3Com EtherLink Both 3c503 and 3c503/16 are supported,
as are 3c507 and
3c509. The 3c501 is supported, too, but is too
slow to be worth buying.


Novell Eagle NE1000 and NE2000, and a variety of clones.
NE1500 and NE2100 are supported, too.


Western Digital/SMC WD8003 and WD8013 (same as SMC
Elite and SMC Elite Plus) are supported, and also the newer
SMC Elite 16 Ultra.


Hewlett Packard HP 27252, HP 27247B, and HP J2405A.
D-Link DE-600 pocket adaptor, DE-100, DE-200, and DE-220-T.
There's also a patch kit for the DE-650-T,
which is a PCMCIA card.(4)


DEC DE200 (32K/64K), DE202, DE100, and DEPCA rev E.


Allied Teliesis AT1500 and AT1700.




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