> >
> > I got a Netgear FB 104 kit for $133. It has 2 FA310TX, 1 FE104 hub and
> > 2 25' cables. The card works with tulip driver 0.89K and 0.90.
>
> Unfortunately, Netgear no longer uses the tulip chipset in that card.
> They haven't changed the model number so you won't know what you have
It is ok as long as you use the tulip.c they provide or the latest
development one. BTW, I am using the one with the tulip clone.
> until you eyeball the card. Apparently, they claim "linux support"
> for the card, but that's based on it being a tulip-based card.
They include a copy of tulip.c on their driver disk. But I use
the newer one.
>
> I'd steer clear until someone writes a driver for the new chipset.
>
> The original author of the tulip driver posted a note about the
> less than wholesome way Netgear treated this change.
>
The current development tulip.c driver supports all Netgear
FA310TX cards and other tulip clones. I got
tulip.c:v0.90 10/20/98 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
eth0: Digital DC21040 Tulip at 0xe000, 00 40 c7 94 0c 61, IRQ 10.
eth1: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC at 0xd800, 00 a0 cc 3b 86 8b, IRQ 11.
eth1: MII transceiver #1 config 1000 status 782d advertising 01e1.
eth1: The transmitter stopped! CSR5 is 2678016, CSR6 812e2002.
eth1: Changing PNIC configuration to half-duplex, CSR6 812e0000.
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