I think the NIC is good - it is brand new. Sorry I forgot to mention that I have WinNT4 installed on another partition with the Netgear driver and I have no networking problems (no symptoms, also checked the event logs) when running that. I dunno if it sill applies these days but I also tried changed the machine's BIOS settting for an "other OS" (the other option for that is a "Windows OS"). It used to be this kind of thing had to be set for the PCI bus to get set up by the BIOS. I think I tried it both ways. This is an older machine (400Mhz AMD K6).
- Alex -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Fisk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 9:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Install with Netgear FA311? On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Alex Stagg wrote: > I have a universal live CD 2004.3. When I boot it detects my FA311 > card and configures the natsemi driver for it, but when traffic is > attempted I get lots of messages "eth0: PCI error 0x800000" and > nothing gets through. The Netgear CD only has drivers for 2.2 and 2.4 > kernels (a different driver than natsemi). Will I need to install > everything from CD and then build a 2.4 kernel with the Netgear driver or is there another way to get this running? You can also try the tulip driver. If it still doesn't work I would verify that the NIC is good. The FA series of cards are extremely well supported under linux. I've been using them since the 2.2 series of kernel. Christopher Fisk -- Calculon: I'm programmed to be very busy. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
