Sorry, I also forgot to mention that although I've used RH and debian in the past, I'm a newbee to gentoo and I'm not sure how to use the tulip driver instead of the natsemi driver during the install. But I'll try to somehow deactivate the device, rmmod, insmod and reactivate it.
- Alex -----Original Message----- From: Christopher Fisk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 10:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Install with Netgear FA311? On Thu, 3 Mar 2005, Alex Stagg wrote: > 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). Did using the tulip driver help? Christopher Fisk -- A boy without mischief is like a bowling ball without a liquid center. -- Homer Simpson, Lisa the Greek -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
