FWIW - I believe I've seen this card work with MD 8.1.
On Monday 19 November 2001 02:57 pm, you wrote: > I've got the weirdest problem. > > A friend bought a netgear FA-311 ethernet card, supposedly works > with linux. > > (Well, ok, it supposedly works with a certain version of Red Hat, > which is at least one version of linux. We won't go any further, > ok? ;-) > > So, I took their (netgear's) sources, managed to get them to compile > and load under mandrake - I could not get things to work at all. > > So, I did a web search and found some network drivers that were supposed to > work with the fa-311, supplied as a SRPM. So I built my own rpm > from their src rpm, installed it, and things looked like they were > working fine - until I actually hooked it up to my network at home. > > The short version: > > subject machine: Mandrake 7.2, with the afore-mentioned network > drivers installed, P200, 64meg ram, etc. > > diagnostic machines: I think they are both mandrake 7.2 as well, > but don't quote me on that ;-) > > My home network is 10.40.2.0 with a netmask of 255.255.254.0 > > I set up the fa-311 box with an address of 10.40.2.20, netmask > 255.255.254.0, and tried to ping my machine 10.40.3.1, which is definately > up and talking on the net. The transmit light on the fa-311 card flashes, > as though it were transmitting packets. But, I don't get an answer. So, I > go and do an arp -a on the two machines on my network that > I know work, and I don't see the fa-311 machine. So, I try pinging > the other way. The fa-311 does not reply. And the 2 machines > don't have anything in their arp table either. > > Has anyone seen anything like this with the FA-311? > > Even more importantly, has anyone gotten it and fixed it??? > > thanks! > > rc
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