Re: FA310TX (tulip) and potato
I had the very same problem. I eventually gave up and bought a 3c905C
which works beautifully. I don't know why but I could not get the
netgear to work correctly at all. I always had to do an
$ ifdown -a; ifup -a
to get the &*@##$ thing to work. IMHO, that card is worth nothing more
than an expensive dog chew toy.
If you would like some constructive help... the only thing I can say is
try the latest driver from
http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html
I believe they are your best resource.
:(
--- Evan DiBiase <evand@telerama.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have been trying (over the course of the last few days) to perform
> a
> network install of Debian "potato" release on my system which
> contains a Netgear
> FA310TX network card which uses the tulip driver. I have encountered
> some
> serious problems, and am hoping that someone out there can help me.
>
> Essentially, the tulip module in the drivers set loads fine (as does
> every other tulip module I've tried). However, the network card just
> can't seem
> to get a response from any computer inside the local network or
> outside! The
> lights on the hub flash, but there is no response from any of the
> local
> computers during a ping request nor from the DNS server when the
> install program
> attempts to download the base install set.
>
> I have submitted bug #71986 on this, and also see that what appears
> to
> be the same bug (#66193) is also in the database. I have tried using
> the tulip
> module provided by Netgear as suggested in bug #66193 but this also
> does not
> seem to work.
>
> So, this is a rather confusing situation and has pushed me to the
> limits
> of my Linux knowledge. Anything anyone knows or would like me to try
> would be
> greatly appreciated, because I want to install Debian more than any
> other OS
> right now, and I would be upset if I had to go to FreeBSD or RedHat,
> my other,
> less favorable choices.
>
> Thanks,
> Evan
>
>
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