Re: Balky Netgear FA311 ethernet card (SOLVED)

2003-06-09 Thread 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 pr

Re: Balky Netgear FA311 ethernet card

2003-06-09 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Sorry, I was out of town last week. Responses below. Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Should the FA311 card be listed in early part of the kernel > messages? I see the message about the card pretty soon after the SCSI disks are identified. Here is the relevant section from my kern.log: Jun

Re: Balky Netgear FA311 ethernet card

2003-06-02 Thread Rick
Ron Johnson wrote: > >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"? > Brian P. Flaherty wrote: >I a

Re: Balky Netgear FA311 ethernet card

2003-06-01 Thread Brian P. Flaherty
Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 FA31

Re: Balky Netgear FA311 ethernet card

2003-06-01 Thread Ron Johnson
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 Ne

Balky Netgear FA311 ethernet card

2003-06-01 Thread Rick
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 re