Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 13:03:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Marc Slemko <marcs@znep.com> To: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netgear FA310TX Card (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.02A.9809291302090.10284-100000@redfish>
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For anyone interested... There was some discussion of the FA310TX changing chipsets earlier. Not sure if the comments are valid or all apply to the latest chipsets. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1998 23:40:27 +0930 (CST) From: Berndt Josef Wulf <wulf@ping.net.au> To: Deepak Vaidya <dvaidya@clark.net> Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: Netgear FA310TX Card Deepak Vaidya wrote > > On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Deepak Vaidya wrote: > > > > > FYI. > > > > Just talked to Netgear support on the Netgear card. Bay no longer uses > > the DEC chipset and they have started to use a propietary chipset. > > > > I am going to drive over to Compusa and see if I can get the card > > replaced. > > > > I looked at the new driver disks on netgears web site and it has linux > support. The driver is listed under tulip.c and basically they added > couple of lines about netgear, which leads me to believe that the chipset > used is nothing but an oem dec chip, which prints out a different string. > > Can someone let me know where I can find the driver for DEC card in the > source tree. I am just going to install the kernel source and leave the > rest out. I donot have enough disk space to install the whole cvs tree. > > I am not very good at programming, but will give it a try to see if I can > get the card recoginized. > FYI - There is a FAQ which explains that the generic DEC driver on Win95 will work in full duplex with revision C6 cards and the full duplex LED inoperational. This leads me to believe that the chipset would be very close to the original DEC chipset with perhaps some minor hardware changes. (I can't confirm this at the moment since my adapter employs the original DEC chipset). see - http://netgear.baynetworks.com/support/support_fa310tx/fa310tx_faqs.shtml paragraph - 2.2 Why doesn't the Full Duplex LED on the FA310TX light up when I am connected to the network? hope this helps cheerio Berndt -- Name : Berndt Josef Wulf E-Mail : wulf@ping.net.au Sysinfo : DEC AXPpci33+, NetBSD-1.3 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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