On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 03:20 -0700, Jerry Houston wrote:

It's been my experience with Linux that trying to use the newest technology can be painful, and when I changed my router to a new 802.11n with gigabit wired connections, I didn't really expect things to go smoothly. I figured the router would be universal enough, but I had low expectations for my chances of getting new gigabit NICs and n-level wireless cards to work.

I'm happy to say that there was nothing to worry about (so far). I bought D-Link DGE530T NICs for the wired workstations, and the new hardware module recognized them right away, Installation went smoothly, and they're working great. Working with NFS shares on the server is now almost like working with directories on a workstation itself.

I decided to take it one step at a time, so the wireless workstations are still at g-level, until the new cards arrive a few days from now. If the one for my Toshiba laptop installs easily and works well, I'll let you know. Meanwhile, I thought there might be others here who would appreciate knowing about an inexpensive gigabit NIC that's well supported by openSuSE 10.3. I am interested in 802.11n myself. I would like to know which wireless card you are ordering and the chipsets. At this time, I know of only two chipsets the Aetheros and RALINK. The problem is finding which cards they are being used. In addition, the drivers are not completely released. The Ralink you have to compile the drivers yourself and the aetheros is not in the normal madwifi release. I could be wrong though. -- Joseph Loo jloo@acm.org

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