Re: Trouble with NetGear FA511 NIC

[Joseph Fahey <jfx@ifrance.com>]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 08:17:14PM +0200, debian-rt@meinungsverstaerker.de wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 05:05:43PM +0200, Joseph Fahey wrote:
> 
> > I'm having problems getting a NetGear FA511 NIC to work on a ThinkPad
> > 600. I am running as testing/unstable, but have compiled my kernel
> > from the most recent kernel.org sources (2.4.22).  There have been
> > couple of threads on this list of the past couple of years that seem
> > to be close to my problem, yet they don't quite answer it.
> 
> I'm using the an NetGear FA511 NIC to write you this Email right now.
> It's working perfectly here without any hazles. I cannot use the kernel
> pcmcia driver because of system freeze as soon as i load yenta_socket.o.
> Therefore I have to use the pcmcia drivers from pcmcia-cs. I would
> suggest to use them as well. Compile the kernel as well as the pcmcia
> modules with 2.95, because i've seen unexplainable kerneloops when
> compiling with gcc-3.3.

Thank you for the response.

Very strange, because my exprience has been completely different: no
problem loading yenta_socket.o (I'm using it right now with a
different NIC).  I have been compiling with gcc-3.3, but at least the
kernel seems to be working, and the Tulip module seems to be at least
trying to load...

I remain confused.

cheers,

Joe

-- 
Joseph Fahey

http://www.ditl.info