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 syste

Re: Balky Netgear FA311 ethernet card

2003-06-01 Thread Ron Johnson
tem with the Netgear FA311 card. This goes on a > PCI bus. I regularly use the network with Windows on both sides, so I > know that the hardware is functional. The Debian system is woody with > the 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel. [snip] > During the Debian boot, the light turns off by the time

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: Netgear FA311 Network card

2002-11-28 Thread Helmut Steinwender
cable modem setup failed because my old account was not deactivated and the MAC address showed up as taken. So I went and bought a new Netgear FA311, the package is still here and after installing it my internet connection was just fine. No modprobing or anything. 'lsmod' does however show

Re: Netgear FA311 Network card

2002-11-28 Thread Barney Wrightson
Helmut Steinwender wrote: __ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Netgear FA311 Network card Date: 28 Nov 2002 15:33:45 + Hello everybody, I am trying to have my NIC Netgear FA311 installed. I went to the

Re: Netgear FA311 Network card

2002-11-28 Thread Helmut Steinwender
> > __ > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Netgear FA311 Network card > Date: 28 Nov 2002 15:33:45 + > > Hello everybody, > > I am trying to have my NIC Netge

Re: Netgear FA311 Network card

2002-11-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
to get a useable fa31x.o module. > > Bob > > On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 03:33:45PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello everybody, > > > > I am trying to have my NIC Netgear FA311 installed. I went to the > > Netgear site and they say I should insert RTL8139.o, w

Re: Netgear FA311 Network card

2002-11-28 Thread Bob Nielsen
> I am trying to have my NIC Netgear FA311 installed. I went to the > Netgear site and they say I should insert RTL8139.o, which I tried > with modconf, but it doesn't work. I have tried pretty much every > driver supply in the NEt section of modconf, without result. >

Netgear FA311 Network card

2002-11-28 Thread f . holler
Hello everybody, I am trying to have my NIC Netgear FA311 installed. I went to the Netgear site and they say I should insert RTL8139.o, which I tried with modconf, but it doesn't work. I have tried pretty much every driver supply in the NEt section of modconf, without result. Any

Re: Netgear FA311 Ethernet Card Problem

2002-11-02 Thread Matthew Weier O'Phinney
-- 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 ra

Netgear FA311 Ethernet Card Problem

2002-11-02 Thread Thomas H. George,,,
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

Re: NIC Netgear FA311 : how do i make it work ?

2001-12-02 Thread Matthew Sackman
On Sun, Dec 02, 2001 at 10:51:15AM +0100, spear wrote: > Hi there ! > > It seems that the drivers delivered with the mainboard are " > Slackware/Redhat " designed ... I found another one, a natsemi.c file, but i > never had to manage anything like this : how should i proceed ? What do i > need ins

NIC Netgear FA311 : how do i make it work ?

2001-12-02 Thread spear
Hi there ! It seems that the drivers delivered with the mainboard are " Slackware/Redhat " designed ... I found another one, a natsemi.c file, but i never had to manage anything like this : how should i proceed ? What do i need installed to use it ? Thanks in advance ! Mathias

Re: Netgear FA311/312

2001-11-29 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 04:24:42PM -0800, Louis Roth wrote: > Do u have any info on setting up to use the above network card. When > I installed with Mandrake, it seemed to find the right stuff, but I > need help with the Debian installation. If you are using kernel 2.2, you need to get the dr

Re: Netgear FA311/312

2001-11-29 Thread Craig Holyoak
Louis Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Do u have any info on setting up to use the above network card. When > I installed with Mandrake, it seemed to find the right stuff, but I > need help with the Debian installation. I use the natsemi driver that comes in the 2.4.x series of kernel with my F

Re: Netgear FA311/312

2001-11-29 Thread D.
If you go to the www.netgear.com and search around a little bit you will find a linux driver for your nic card in .zip form. When you open it you will see a readme on how to compile the driver. I believe that you also need the kernel-headers for the kernel that your using. HTH Don --- Louis Rot

Re: Netgear FA311/312

2001-11-29 Thread dman
On Thu, Nov 29, 2001 at 04:24:42PM -0800, Louis Roth wrote: | Do u have any info on setting up to use the above network card. | When I installed with Mandrake, it seemed to find the right stuff, | but I need help with the Debian installation. Do you still have mandrake running? If so look at t

Netgear FA311/312

2001-11-29 Thread Louis Roth
Do u have any info on setting up to use the above network card. When I installed with Mandrake, it seemed to find the right stuff, but I need help with the Debian installation.

Re: Netgear FA311, usable under Linux ?

2001-11-05 Thread Nicole Zimmerman
> I think it was > natsemi # driver for ethernet card with National Semiconductor chipset I have tons of FA311s at work (okay, more like 10, but still ;o)). I have had a couple of them fail, but that is another issue. With 2.2 kernels, I use the module on the netgear floppies (available on the

Re: Netgear FA311, usable under Linux ?

2001-11-04 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Mon, Nov 05, 2001 at 09:37:26AM +, John Griffiths wrote: > tulip has run just fine for me in the past with these > Tulip drives the Netgear FA-310. The 311 and 312 are based on a different chipset, and use the natsemi driver. The driver is included with kernel 2.4.x. It's available for

Re: Netgear FA311, usable under Linux ?

2001-11-04 Thread Steffen Evers
On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 23:22, Steffen Evers wrote: > natsemi # driver for ethernet card with National Semiconductor chipset I have looked it up. FA311 is my card and I have checked the chipset. Module natsemi is exactly for this card, though other drivers work as will. So, I suggest to use 'natsem

Re: Netgear FA311, usable under Linux ?

2001-11-04 Thread John Griffiths
tulip has run just fine for me in the past with these At 05:29 PM 11/4/01 -0500, dman wrote: >On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 05:02:25PM +, Courtney Thomas wrote: >| Greetings ! >| >| If said card is usable, > >Yes. > >| what module can be used ? > >I don't really remember, but try 'tulip'. If that

Re: Netgear FA311, usable under Linux ?

2001-11-04 Thread dman
On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 05:02:25PM +, Courtney Thomas wrote: | Greetings ! | | If said card is usable, Yes. | what module can be used ? I don't really remember, but try 'tulip'. If that fails, the 'rtl8139' based cards are quite common (try that module). -D

Re: Netgear FA311, usable under Linux ?

2001-11-04 Thread Andrew . Clark
On Sun, 04 November 2001, Courtney Thomas wrote: > > Greetings ! > > If said card is usable, what module can be used ? > > Appreciatively, > Courtney Last time I used a Netgear card (310tx) there was a code for the appropriate kernel module on the disk. If there isn't, it might be the tulip

Re: Netgear FA311, usable under Linux ?

2001-11-04 Thread Steffen Evers
On Sun, Nov 04, 2001 at 17:02, Courtney Thomas wrote: > Greetings ! > > If said card is usable, what module can be used ? I think it was natsemi # driver for ethernet card with National Semiconductor chipset Bye, Steffen

Netgear FA311, usable under Linux ?

2001-11-04 Thread Courtney Thomas
Greetings ! If said card is usable, what module can be used ? Appreciatively, Courtney -- Naturity: in contradistinction to the oxymoronic humanity, and as evidenced by the natural mercy of death releasing living beings from the unnaturalness and "inhumanity"

Re: Netgear FA311

2001-11-02 Thread Rob Ransbottom
On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 10:50:45AM -0500, Rob Ransbottom wrote: > > On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Donna. wrote: > > > > > On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 12:27:31PM -0500, Banshee wrote: > > > > How do I get the module for debian? I downloaded a module from > > > La

Re: Netgear FA311

2001-11-01 Thread Rob Ransbottom
On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Donna. wrote: > On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 12:27:31PM -0500, Banshee wrote: > > How do I get the module for debian? I downloaded a module from > Last year, we had to use the 3com card to (1) install and (2) get the > latest source from netgear.com, cuz the stuff on the floppy

Re: Netgear FA311

2001-11-01 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 10:50:45AM -0500, Rob Ransbottom wrote: > On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Donna. wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 12:27:31PM -0500, Banshee wrote: > > > How do I get the module for debian? I downloaded a module from > > > Last year, we had to use the 3com card to (1) install an

Re: Netgear FA311

2001-10-30 Thread Donna.
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 12:27:31PM -0500, Banshee wrote: > How do I get the module for debian? I downloaded a module from > somewhere that was for 2.2.19-1 and 19-2 but they didn't work. Right > now the only thing I can do is get the debian installer for woody > working, I can't easily install

Re: Netgear FA311

2001-10-28 Thread Banshee
> On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 01:24:00AM -0400, Banshee wrote: > > Just today I decided that it would be a good idea to remove headrat 7.1 > > from my friends computer and install debian. Well he has two netgear > > fa311 cards (this computer acts as a router) and I can&#x

Re: Netgear FA311

2001-10-28 Thread dman
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 11:05:55AM +, Rob Bradford wrote: | On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 01:24:00AM -0400, Banshee wrote: | > Just today I decided that it would be a good idea to remove headrat 7.1 | > from my friends computer and install debian. Well he has two netgear | > fa311 ca

Re: Netgear FA311

2001-10-28 Thread Rob Bradford
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 01:24:00AM -0400, Banshee wrote: > Just today I decided that it would be a good idea to remove headrat 7.1 > from my friends computer and install debian. Well he has two netgear > fa311 cards (this computer acts as a router) and I can't get them > wo

Netgear FA311

2001-10-28 Thread Banshee
Just today I decided that it would be a good idea to remove headrat 7.1 from my friends computer and install debian. Well he has two netgear fa311 cards (this computer acts as a router) and I can't get them working at all so I can't do a net install. Are there modules I can

Re: Netgear FA311 driver from Scyld

2001-09-11 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 10:12:27PM -0700, Rob Hudson wrote: > How do I get the kernel to 'see' the natsemi.c file and compile this > driver into the kernel? > You will need to do some kernel hacking. Unless you have experience integrating drivers into the kernel, it is likely to be non-trivial.

Re: Netgear FA311 driver from Scyld

2001-09-11 Thread Noah Meyerhans
One more thing: Note that kernel 2.4.x includes the natsemi driver already. It is the "National Semiconductor DP8381x series PCI Ethernet support" option in the kernel configuration. It's not same as the file from scyld, but is based on it. noah -- ___

Netgear FA311 driver from Scyld

2001-09-11 Thread Rob Hudson
Hi, I recently got the natsemi.c driver for my Netgear FA-311 card working. I compiled the .o files for both natsemi and pci_scan separately and inserted them and brought up my network card. I'd like to compile this driver into the kernel. I've done this with a Linksys LNE-100TX card, which is

Re: netgear fa311 NIC driver

2001-08-25 Thread bedlam
ROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > I have upgraded to kernel 2.4.9 so I would have support for the > > > > > netgear fa311 NIC, specifically the natsemi driver. > > > > > > You didn't need to upgrade your kernel. > > >http://www.scyld.com/netw

Re: netgear fa311 NIC driver

2001-08-25 Thread bedlam
ROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > I have upgraded to kernel 2.4.9 so I would have support for the > > > > > netgear fa311 NIC, specifically the natsemi driver. > > > > > > You didn't need to upgrade your kernel. > > >http://www.scyld.com/n

Re: netgear fa311 NIC driver

2001-08-25 Thread Donald Becker
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 10:54:18PM -0400, Donald Becker wrote: > > > However, it is > > > > behaving strangely. I repeatedly get the error message: > > > > > > > > eth1: Something Wicked Happened! 18000 > > > > Hmmm, the Rx status steck overflowed. >

Re: netgear fa311 NIC driver

2001-08-24 Thread Donald Becker
.4.9 so I would have support for the > > > > netgear fa311 NIC, specifically the natsemi driver. > > > > You didn't need to upgrade your kernel. > >http://www.scyld.com/network/ethercard.html > > ftp://www.scyld.com/pub/network/natsemi.c > I had problems

Re: netgear fa311 NIC driver

2001-08-24 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 10:54:18PM -0400, Donald Becker wrote: > > However, it is > > > behaving strangely. I repeatedly get the error message: > > > > > > eth1: Something Wicked Happened! 18000 > > Hmmm, the Rx status steck overflowed. > I don't see this with my driver release. > This is very

Re: netgear fa311 NIC driver

2001-08-24 Thread bedlam
On Fri, 24 August 2001, Donald Becker wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 05:50:25PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I have upgraded to kernel 2.4.9 so I would have support for the > > > netgear fa311 NIC

Re: netgear fa311 NIC driver

2001-08-24 Thread Donald Becker
On Fri, 24 Aug 2001, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 05:50:25PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I have upgraded to kernel 2.4.9 so I would have support for the > > netgear fa311 NIC, specifically the natsemi driver. You didn't need to upgrade

Re: netgear fa311 NIC driver

2001-08-24 Thread Noah Meyerhans
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 05:50:25PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have upgraded to kernel 2.4.9 so I would have support for the > netgear fa311 NIC, specifically the natsemi driver. However, it is > behaving strangely. I repeatedly get the error message: > > eth1: Something

netgear fa311 NIC driver

2001-08-24 Thread bedlam
I have upgraded to kernel 2.4.9 so I would have support for the netgear fa311 NIC, specifically the natsemi driver. However, it is behaving strangely. I repeatedly get the error message: eth1: Something Wicked Happened! 18000 I've looked at the website www.scyld.com/network/natsemi.htm

Re: [Newbie] Problem with ethercard NETGEAR FA311

2001-06-07 Thread Gerald Niel
Hello, I'm sorry but I don't speak/wrote very well english... I've some problem with the ethercad Netgear FA311. I can't compile the module natsemi.c on a Debian Potato 2.2_r0 I've this message when I try to compil this with the command gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -O6

Re: Netgear FA311--compiling the module

2001-05-01 Thread Anthony Lau
At 9:02 PM -0400 4/30/2001, Rob Warner wrote: I'm running potato, and I'm trying to get my Netgear FA311 nic card going. I downloaded the natsemi driver from scyld, but when I try to compile it using: I'm not too familiar with 2.2.X Kernels, but is there a kernel module in

Re: Netgear FA311--compiling the module

2001-04-30 Thread aphro
> gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -O6 -c natsemi.c > In file included from /usr/include/linux/string.h:37, > from natsemi.c:107: > /usr/include/asm/string.h:46: parse error before `size_t' > /usr/include/asm/string.h: In function `strncpy': > /usr/include/asm/string.h:47: number of arg

Netgear FA311--compiling the module

2001-04-30 Thread Rob Warner
I'm running potato, and I'm trying to get my Netgear FA311 nic card going. I downloaded the natsemi driver from scyld, but when I try to compile it using: gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -O6 -c natsemi.c I'm inundated with errors. I've attached the complete log, but they start

Re: Problems installing Netgear FA311 Ethernetcard.

2001-01-23 Thread Stefan Möller
> Enable the National Semiconductor (natsemi.c) ethernet driver in the kernel > under network devices. I tried to compile natsemi.c I received the following error message: natsemi.c: 103 /linux/modversions.h natsemi.c: 124 pci-scan.h natsemi.c: 125 kern_compat.h Do I need the kernel headers for

Re: Problems installing Netgear FA311 Ethernetcard.

2001-01-23 Thread Philippe Marzouk
Le mar, 23 jan 2001 09:19:09, hogan a écrit : > > Enable the National Semiconductor (natsemi.c) ethernet driver in the > kernel > > under network devices. Install the new kernel, then add a line to > > /etc/network/interfaces for eth0. Boot back up and it should be > > working. Promise it'll wo

Re: Problems installing Netgear FA311 Ethernetcard.

2001-01-23 Thread hogan
> Enable the National Semiconductor (natsemi.c) ethernet driver in the kernel > under network devices. Install the new kernel, then add a line to > /etc/network/interfaces for eth0. Boot back up and it should be > working. Promise it'll work, I just got through doing it. So does newer kernel ha

Re: Problems installing Netgear FA311 Ethernetcard.

2001-01-22 Thread Benjamin Pharr
At 11:49 AM 1/22/01 , you wrote: My Netgear FA311 Card was not found at bootstrapping (rescue disk). I were not able to install the recommended 'tulip' driver into the kernel at installation process. I wanted to install the 'tulip' driver as a module, after I build my syste

Problems installing Netgear FA311 Ethernetcard.

2001-01-22 Thread Stefan Möller
My Netgear FA311 Card was not found at bootstrapping (rescue disk). I were not able to install the recommended 'tulip' driver into the kernel at installation process. I wanted to install the 'tulip' driver as a module, after I build my system, but /dev/eth0 did not exists.