I think you can use that netgear card via the "tulip" driver. -- Asheesh.
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 28. November 2001 17:22 schrieben Sie: > > "Richard Bown (QMW)" wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > I'm waiting to hear back from Wolfgang on the list of things to > > verify... > > > > Until a "ping -br <broadcast>" which bypasses the routing table > > actually makes it to the other machine (basic connectivity), > > routing tables changes are not going to help (unless the network > > code is buggy). > > That's the point. Unless I can get a connection from notebook to > desktop I don't bother about routes. > I ripped off the NIC which was configured as eth1 b/c it was a n old > ISA card and I mistrust them. Also the MCC kept saying "You only have > one NIC" although both showed up in the network section as "up". So > much to the gui tools. > > Right now I got a cheap NIC called "Netgear FA311 Fast Ethernet PCI > Card". Problem is, it comes with Linux drivers (!) but only for Red > Hat 6.x and the given files will not compile b/c the makefile is > counting on kgcc. Duh... So I cannot build the module. > > Harddrake doesn't know it, it says it's a NAtional Semiconductor > Product and that it is "unknown" > > wobo (really getting in to it!) > > >
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