Re: FA310TX (tulip) and potato

[Aaron Brashears <aaron@myplay.com>]

I've been using tulip/fa310tx combos for over a year now with great
success. The key is that there are 2 different fa310tx cards out there.
Rev 1 doesn't play nice with linux, whereas Rev 2 works great. There is
a subtle difference in the serial number scheme which is detailed on the
netgear website and in the linux installation instructions on the driver
floppy (which comes with an old tulip.c file).

Evan DiBiase 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.