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Re: Netgear FA311 and natsemi issue



What I've found is that with those cards is that you must use the 2.4 kernel. The drivers in 2.2 kernel, neither the natsemi nor the -scyld variants work. 2.4 everything is fine.

--On Friday, February 13, 2004 19:21 -0500 sarwat0brcm@netscape.net wrote:

Hi,

First, some basic info:

OS: Debian 3.0R2 stable
PC: Old Pentium Pro box with Intel 440FX chipset
Kernel: 2.4.18 (standard Debian kernel with natsemi support builtin)
natsemi driver: came with Debian dist (1.14 IIRC)

Now the issue:

When the PC is first turned on I can see the link light on the switch,
however, the link light mysteriously goes away just before the natsemi
driver is loaded. The driver, however, seems to find the card just fine
at IRQ 10. ifconfig -a shows eth0 with the MAC address and other details
listed. Machine is able to ping itself but nothing else (not surprising
since the link light on the hub never comes back on).

lspci command shows the 'National Semiconductor card" at IRQ 10

I'm at a loss specially since everything worked fine under RedHat 7.3 a
week ago.

If there's any output of a command that you would like me to post pls let
me know (I can redirect output to a floppy and then cut-n-paste from a
different machine that has a network connection).

Any help or pointers in the right direction would be much appreciated.

I posted this on scyld.com mailing list but didn't get a response. I'm
hoping someone here might have heard of this before.

Thank you.


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