Re: Balky Netgear FA311 ethernet card (SOLVED)

[rickpd]

Brian, I appreciate your response.  I was wondering about the ominous 
silence.  After completely failing every attempt to get the card to work 
with the natsemi module, I recompiled the kernel to include natsemi, and 
the FA311 was successfully activated during start-up.  I don't know what 
the problem was with the modules, but strongly suspect it was a PCI bus 
initialization issue.  For anyone else who may have trouble, I also note 
that while my recent FA311 used the National Semiconductor 83815 
supported by natsemi, older versions of the FA311 used other chips, 
including the RTL8139, for which a number of drivers are apparently 
available.

Thanks again, Brian,

Rick

Brian P. Flaherty wrote:

Sorry, I was out of town last week.  Responses below.

 



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