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Re: Tulip chip Netgear card



On Tue, 13 Nov 2001 flonesaw@longship.net wrote:

> I have a pair of Netgear FX-310TX NICs. (I'm uncertain of the precise model

> card running the PNIC chip (marked LC82C169), which is a Tulip compatible.

> installation isn't.  This is undoubtedly a silly thing.  What am I doing wrong?

The CMOS setting for PNP OS may be wrong.  This only seemed 
to matter for PCI cards on my latest installation, a new
motherboard with 2.2 Debian.  The setting of "PNP OS" to
NO gets the bios to initialize the bus/card.  
This tripped me up as "PNP OS" used to effect PNP ISA 
cards only.  

rob                     Live the dream.



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