Re: Newbie question Netgear NIC

The one I was referring to was not Tulip, it is ... um ... the FA-311,
which uses the "natsemi" driver, not the Tulip driver, so, if you have
the FA-311, Tulip is not going to work. -Tom

On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Conan Brink wrote:

> Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 21:42:11 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Conan Brink <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [tomsrtbt] Newbie question Netgear NIC
>
> My experience with a newer netgear card was that it was tulip, but the PCI
> device ID was too new to be listed in the tulip driver.  They supplied a
> newer tulip driver source file that included the new device ID.
>
> It's a simple enough task to look at the list of device IDs in the source
> file and add them to your own kernel.  Or if you're an unrepentant hacker
> like me, you can zap one of the other device IDs in the already-built
> tulip code.
>
> -Conan
>
> On Fri, 21 Jun 2002, Tom Oehser wrote:
>
> > Note- some of the newer netgears (not fa310), are NOT Tulip, and use
> > oddball chipsets not supported in 2.2.20 without special patches.
> >
> > What model is it?
> >
> > -Tom
>
>