-- Thomas H. George,,, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote (on Saturday, 02 November 2002, 07:34 AM -0500): > I bought a Netgear FA311 Ethernet Card. On the box it claimed to > support linux. > > Starting with a blank computer I installed Debian 3.0 from an official > CD set. I ran pppoeconf and got a message that there was a serious > problem - an address was 1498 that should have been 1500. > > Next I loaded kernel-source-2.4.18, built a new kernel with network > support and rebooted. Now pppoeconf cannot find the ethernet card. > > Finally, I looked at the software that came with the card and found it > came with files to set up the card on any of three versions of Red Hat > linux. The instructions called for compiling the modules with c using > the included makefile. I presume that in time I can puzzle out and edit > the instructions in the makefile to work with Woody. In the meantime, > if anyone has already done this, I would appreciate help in getting this > going so I can connect the computer to internet and get some urgently > needed updates. I've got this same card in my server using a stock kernel. You need to use load the kernel module "natsemi".
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