Natsemi [was Re: Tulip chip Netgear card]
Tom Allison <tallison1@twmi.rr.com> writes:
> flonesaw@longship.net wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I'm fairly new to Debian, but not new to Linux. In particular, I
> > know about
> > configuring almost everything, but not much about the Debian way of doing
> > things.
> > I have a pair of Netgear FX-310TX NICs. (I'm uncertain of the
> > precise model
> > number; neither card has a model stenciled on the card.) The cards came in one
> > of those networking kits; the price was right so I bought it. The card is a PCI
> > card running the PNIC chip (marked LC82C169), which is a Tulip compatible.
> >
>
> Interestingly enough I just talked to someone this morning who was
> using these netgear 310's and had trouble with a new NIC, it turns out
> that it was a 311. The difference being that the card when from
> several physical IC packages to one larger one. That and it didn't
> work with the debian distro he was using (2.2r2).
If the issue is that the card is a netgear 311, go to
www.scyld.com/network and get the natsemi driver. This one works with
the FA-311. You need to download the source (natsemi.c) and a support
program called pci-scan. In order to compile these, you need your
linux version's source in /usr/src. Once these are built, I copied
them into /lib/modules/2.2.19pre17/net and loaded them. Worked like a
charm and continues to do so.
Good luck.
Brian Flaherty
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