[NTLUG:Discuss] Any experience with Netgear FA310TXC NIC

[kevin3@ont.com]

Swapan Sarkar wrote:

> Hi,
>   Does anybody have any experience with FA310TXC card
> ?

The FA310TX is the actual card. The trailing "C" denotes the box
contains the "C"able.

> I tried the tulip driver which supports FA310TX
> cards but have not been able to make it work for TXC.

It is the "Tulip" driver that it needs. My /etc/conf.modules contains
only the line

alias eth0 tulip

After installing in my RedHat 6.2 box, Kudzu detected and installed it,
without even a reboot. (leftover expectations from my windows days)


> While bringing up the network it gives a message
> "Delaying eth0 initialization" and then it fails.

Maybe a conflicting IRQ or memory address, or possibly a network
configuration problem. You might try.... not allowing the card to
initialize on boot, but load it as a module after you have booted and
logged in. RedHat does this thru the RP3 PPP & network manager.

I use this configuration with my DSL service, to avoid being connected,
if and when I dont want to be.

Sorry I couldnt be of more help, but if you have more info to provide,
I will try. I will say that the card works great under RH.

Bilbo Baggins