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Re: problems with revision D2 NICs



On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 10:13:39PM -0400, D-Man wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 09:54:44PM -0400, j.pepas@mail.utexas.edu wrote:
> | hey guys,
> | 
> | recently, i helped a friend put together a debian box, but i am
> | having some trouble with the NIC.
> | 
> | First, I told him to get a netgear FA-310TX, knowing that it was
> | supported under linux.
> 
> Did you use the 'ne' module or the 'ne-pci' if it was a PCI card?
> That card is an "NE2000" clone.  I have 2 of them, ISA version.

Huh?  The FA-310TX is a tulip card.  The original was based on the DEC
chip; the later revs used a LiteOn chip.  All these work with the
tulip driver.

The FA-311TX is the National Semiconductor chip and uses the natsemi
driver.

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