Bill Campbell wrote: > I got a NetGear FA511 CardBus NIC today to replace a FA510 that was > destroyed by a ham-handed, careless klutz (but then I repeat myself). > > In any case, running Caldera 3.1.1 Workstation, the FA511 isn't recognized. > The syslog entries show that it's returning in info string of simply ``N'', > with reasonable values for the other manufacturer's ID values (it's offline > now so I can't cut and paste them in). In the past I've usually been able > to edit the /etc/pcmcia/config file to create an entry based on a similar > card, but none of my attempts here succeeded. The older FA510 card > identified itself as a UMAX, but still ran the usual tulip_cb driver. > > Is it possible that I just got a bad card given that it's returning a > single character ID string? > > The NIC comes with LINUX stuff on the CD including an older version of the > pcmcia-ps code that what is on the 3.1.1 machine, and instructions on how > to build tulip drivers from the kernel source. This appears to be fairly > dated, the most recent RedHat stuff being for 7.0.
Well, you could always just manually load tulip_cb and see if you can get the card to work. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Step-by-step & TyGeMo: http://netllama.ipfox.com 5:20pm up 48 days, 1:40, 4 users, load average: 0.11, 0.13, 0.14 _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
