[NTLUG:Discuss] Netgear FA310TX NIC

[Seth Daniel]

George,

You might want to check the version of your tulip driver.
I had similar problems with the provided driver so I 
simply d/l'd the newest driver from Donald Becker's 
site:

  http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/tulip.html

There is a good chance that this card actually has the 
much cheaper "Lite-On" chipset.  The tulip driver will work
fine with this as well.   I have two FA310TX cards at home.
They don't seem to work too well when sending/receiving 
broadcasts (like DHCP - it works, but it is very slow), but 
they work fine otherwise.  


On Wed, Aug 11, 1999 at 12:16:02PM -0500, George E. Lass wrote:
> I am having some problems with my Netgear FA310TX
> Ethernet card.  I am on a 10BaseT network, using
> half duplex transmission.  When the system first
> comes up, the tulip driver puts the card into
> full duplex mode.  It then recognises that the 
> network is only half duplex, so it shuts down the
> transmitter and attempts to recover it.  Sometimes
> it is successful sometimes not!
> 
> The tulip driver is the one supplied by Bay Networks.
> In the source for the driver is claims that the media
> type can be set in options[].  Does anyone know how
> this can be done?  Is this a source change that I
> need to make, or can it be passed via an "append"
> line in /etc/linux.conf?

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