Did the Linksys LNE100TX NIC ever work for anyone on OS2?

[David T. Johnson]

I have tried to get two versions of a Linksys LNE100TX card working with
OS/2 and it seems to be a no go. There seem to be several different
OS/2 drivers for this card and I've tried all of them on two different
hardware versions of the card but none of them will load. Did anyone
ever get one of these to actually work on OS/2? Google shows several
people with the same problem but no one seems to have gotten one to
work. Even though there are OS/2 drivers existing, they really seem to
be OS/2-unfriendly hardware.

[Percival P. Cassidy]

Post by David T. Johnson
I have tried to get two versions of a Linksys LNE100TX card working with
OS/2 and it seems to be a no go. There seem to be several different
OS/2 drivers for this card and I've tried all of them on two different
hardware versions of the card but none of them will load. Did anyone
ever get one of these to actually work on OS/2? Google shows several
people with the same problem but no one seems to have gotten one to
work. Even though there are OS/2 drivers existing, they really seem to
be OS/2-unfriendly hardware.

I used them (certainly versions 5.0 and 5.1, and I think also 4.x) for a
long time with the driver downloaded from ADMTek (the chip manufacturer)
and now also available from Chuck McKinnis's NICPak collection.

If you can't find it, leave a note here, and I'll send it.

Perce

[Peter Brown]

Hi David

Post by David T. Johnson
I have tried to get two versions of a Linksys LNE100TX card working with
OS/2 and it seems to be a no go. There seem to be several different
OS/2 drivers for this card and I've tried all of them on two different
hardware versions of the card but none of them will load. Did anyone
ever get one of these to actually work on OS/2? Google shows several
people with the same problem but no one seems to have gotten one to
work. Even though there are OS/2 drivers existing, they really seem to
be OS/2-unfriendly hardware.

Bought 1 of these a couple of years ago - cheap and the supplied floppy
disk had OS/2 drivers on it. Shame it did not work as the drivers were
incorrect for the nic...

A quick download of the correct drivers from linksys.com resolved the
problem and the nic works fine

The trick is to first identify which chipset is used on the nic as
linksys seem to have used several different suppliers leading to several
different drivers being available for the same model nic.

There used to be a webpage on the linksys.com site which I used for this
purpose but I cannot seem to find it at the moment.

Not sure if the nicpack http://www.os2warp.be/index2.php?name=nicpak
contains the driver you need but it should be capable of identifying
the chipset used.

Regards

Pete

[l***@nospam.net]

Post by David T. Johnson
I have tried to get two versions of a Linksys LNE100TX card working with
OS/2 and it seems to be a no go. There seem to be several different
OS/2 drivers for this card and I've tried all of them on two different
hardware versions of the card but none of them will load. Did anyone
ever get one of these to actually work on OS/2? Google shows several
people with the same problem but no one seems to have gotten one to
work. Even though there are OS/2 drivers existing, they really seem to
be OS/2-unfriendly hardware.

There are different drivers and they nothing about using Link anything is
OS2 friendly. That being said, I had one LNE100 card that I gave up on.
Then one day a lightening shot took out my dad's DSL modem and network
card. I him the Link card I had laying around -- and it didn't even work
with Win98 -- and it was suppose to have the right drivers for it!

As far as I'm concerned, Link manufactures junk, and they are on my Do Not
Buy, Specify or Approve list. Now I buy 3M, Intel or IBM net cards.