> From: o.r.c@p.e.l.l.p.o.r.t.l.a.n.d.o.r.u.s (david parsons)
> Date: 3 Apr 1999 23:19:09 -0800
> Subject: Re: NetGear troubles
>
> In article <linux.kernel.Pine.LNX.3.96.990403035816.5485Q-100000@calvin.captech.com>,
> George Bonser <grep@oriole.sbay.org> wrote:
> >
> >I am using the v90 tulip driver with a Net Gear FA 310TX. Motherboard is a
> >Tyan Tomcat. I can get the card to work about 10% of the time. If I do get
> >it to work, it stops working after a seemingly random period of time.
> >Other than the familliar "Transmitter Stopped!" messages, I get nothing
> >useful logged anywhere. Same problem with 2.0.36, 2.0.37 and 2.2.5
>
> 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
I used a few dozen NetGear FA310TX's, many in various Tyan Tomcat I, II, and
IV boards. The only times I had problems were when I got bad NIC cards
(after they switched from 21140 to LiteOn chips, quality control appeard to
go out the window), or when I got my first LiteOn versions and the driver in
the kernel didn't support them.
> In all of these cases, I've used the driver that was supplied with
> the card, because it's very happy with those cards and it gets along
> well with other tulips too.
I don't know what they're shipping with the cards now, but in the past they
used to ship a badly hacked driver. You're _much_ safer sticking with
either what's included with the kernel or the latest release from
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/tulip.html
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