[eepro100] Allied Telesyn AT-2450-FTX

[Simon Giesecke]

On Fri, 15 Feb 2002, Donald Becker wrote:

> > Is the network adaptor AT-2450-FTX by Allied Telesyn supported by the 
> > eepro100 driver?
> 
> At one point a card with that product number was a rtl8139 with a fiber
> transceiver.  I don't recall ever seeing an Allied Telesyn product with
> an intel NIC chip.

The task to buy a NIC that has a 10Base-F interface and is known to be 
supported by Linux seems to be very complicated.

I drew the information that the card uses an Intel chip from the Linux 
Ethernet-HOWTO (which is rather outdated):

> AT2540FX
>
> Status: Semi-Supported, Driver Name: eepro100
>
> This card uses the i82557 chip, and hence may/should work with the
> eepro100 driver. If you try this please send in a report so this
> information can be updated.

Allied Telesyn phone support couldn't tell me which chip is used on the 
card. They said the AT2500 uses a Realtek chip, so probably the AT2450FX 
does too. Not very convincing. 

The problem is that there aren't that many NICs which have a Fibre 
interface at all, which are offered by computer stores around here.

Nevertheless, thanks a lot...

Simon

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