Re: Network card driver
Yes & no.
Since the card is based upon the DEC DS21140, the Tulip driver included in
the kernel source is appropriate.
Netgear does distribute a driver for linux for their FA310 card. It is a
customized and possibly optimized version of the Tulip driver. The
instructions that come with it detail how to build the driver as a module
or into the kernel itself.
To install it, you must build a kernel with either static support of
module support for the Tulip driver. You would be well served to read the
Kernel HOWTO. Also, read the Debian specific kernel compilation
techniques. Make sure that you have the kernel-package and
kernel-source-<version> packages installed. Read the docs in
/usr/doc/kernel-package to learn the Debian method of building kernel
packages. You can build your kernel the way it's described in the HOWTO,
but the kernel-package distro makes it easier!
BTW, it's best to build your own kernel anyway as then you can tailor it
to your specific hardware!
Cheers,
Jason
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Timothy C. Phan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does Debian come with the NetGear F310 10/100 network card
> driver? How do I install it?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> aphro wrote:
> >
> > its possible to start w/o a swap. depends how much ram you have though
> > .. i never build linux boxes with less then 64 or 128MB in those cases
> > swap isn't that important so its easy to turn off..
> >
> > it may be bad ram..there are a few memory testers out there for linux..try
> > em out.
> >
> > nate
> >
> > On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, Werner Reisberger wrote:
> >
> > werner >On Sat, Jan 29, 2000 at 11:31:30AM -0800, aphro wrote:
> > werner >> try running your mahcine w/o a swap partition setup to see if the problem
> > werner >> persists, (its just a shot in the dark..) you may have bad sectors on the
> > werner >> drive where the swap partition resides.
> > werner >
> > werner >Is it possible to start linux w/o a swap partition? I checked the drive
> > werner >(UW-SCSI) with the diagnostic program of the Adaptec-Controller and didn't
> > werner >found any bad blocks.
> > werner >
> > werner >I think it's rather a problem with the RAM. I just checked a core after
> > werner >a program failed with seg fault. The message found ("Cannot access memory
> > werner >in 0xa346e32") points to a RAM problem. I think I really have to exchange my
> > werner >RAM.
> > werner >
> > werner > Werner
> > werner >
> >
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