Re: Balky Netgear FA311 ethernet card
On Sat, 2003-05-31 at 21:31, Rick wrote:
> I have a very small home network consisting of two computers connected
> by ethernet via a hub. One computer is currently Windows only, and the
> other is a Debian/Windows dual boot. The dual boot machine is an
> elderly Pentium Pro system with the Netgear FA311 card. This goes on a
> PCI bus. I regularly use the network with Windows on both sides, so I
> know that the hardware is functional. The Debian system is woody with
> the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel.
[snip]
> During the Debian boot, the light turns off by the time the boot
> sequence is doing some timeouts on my SCSI interface. There is no
> mention of the card during this early part of the boot sequence, but it
> does come up in the kernel messages (with no obvious problems) when the
> natsemi ethernet driver runs as a module. The scyld site mentions
> loading a pci-scan module before the natsemi module. I am not sure what
> the pci-scan module does (it is not in the debian woody distribution,
> although natsemi is), but I have tried it and it does not cause the
> ethernet hub light for the ethernet card to turn on.
Have you grepped dmesg for eth0 or "[Nn]atsemi"? What about
/var/log/*log? (Maybe that's what you mean by "does come up in
the kernel messages", but the specifics would be useful.)
And what's the output of lspci and "modprobe -v natsemi"?
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