Re: NetGear troubles

George Bonser (grep@shorelink.com)
Sun, 4 Apr 1999 01:02:39 -0800 (PST)


On 3 Apr 1999, david parsons wrote:

> Have you tried it in a different motherboard? It's possible that
> the motherboard is what's causing you grief, not the card (I've not
> worked with the FA310TX on many motherboards, since I'm trying to
> standardise on the FIC PA2013, but the netgears work fine for me on
> those, the FIC VA503+, the FIC VB601V -- all three with VIA Apollo
> chipsets -- as well as an elderly single-level ATX motherboard I dug
> out of the discard bin at a web vendor and one of the first
> SuperMicro Pentium II motherboards.)
>

This is an older Tyan Tomcat S1562 Dual socket-7 and it just MIGHT be
something with this board. I can not get the thing to work at all. Just
got the version 90q driver and tried it with both 2.2.5 and
2.0.37-pre<something> and they both act the same.

I have tried both as a module, compiled in the kernel, in every different
slot on the PCI bus, etc. I DID get it to work ONCE with 2.0.36 and the
supplied driver but that was only after I took the interface down and
brought it back up ... it just came up that one time. I have not been able
to duplicate it. Note that this is an SMP box with dual P150's. I have not
tried it on a UP kernel on this box.

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