Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 07:07:41 -0500 From: Drew Sanford <lauasanf@bellsouth.net> To: Otter <otterr@telocity.com> Cc: "Mullen, Adam" <Adam.Mullen@compaq.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netgear FA312 10/100 Ethernet Nic Message-ID: <39EAEF8D.197E962B@bellsouth.net> References: <HLEDJBJKDDPDJBMGCLPPEENLCFAA.otterr@telocity.com>
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I've also seen this behavior. The 310 is golden, and I'm glad I have extras laying around, because for the money, you can't beat them in my opinion. Can anyone tell what broke these cards, and better yet, once we know that, would anyone fix up the driver for it? That would be great:) Otter wrote: > > Adam, > Under 4.1.1, the FA310 works like a champ using the dc driver. After > picking up a NetGear 311 yesterday, I see that it doesn't work with dc > or any other driver in the 4.1 GENERIC kernel I was attempting to > install it on. Once I pull the 310 and compare chipsets, I'll let you > know the difference. For what it's worth, I get the same result you do > on my 311-- no recognition. > -Otter > > }-----Original Message----- > }From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > }[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Mullen, Adam > }Sent: Sunday, October 15, 2000 1:58 PM > }To: 'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG' > }Cc: Mullen, Adam > }Subject: Netgear FA312 10/100 Ethernet Nic > } > } > }I recently bought a Netgear FA312 Nic based off of the fact that they > }claimed it ran under Linux. Well, not quite that simple. > }It runs under > }Linux under the kernel they developed it for. To say the > }least, I've thrown > }Linux out the door and am now running FreeBSD. I can't get > }this card to > }work here either. I've found that under OpenBSD they > }suggest useing the sis > }drivers. I've tried compiling the sis code into the kernel > }but no such > }luck. My latest escapade was to compile all of the network > }drivers into the > }kernel and see what happens. When I do an ifconfig -a, > }nothing shows up > }besides the nomal loopback. When I do dmesg | grep -i inet, > }nothing shows > }up. Has anyone else made attempts to use the FA312 Nic and > }does anyone know > }if this is even possible? > } > }Cheers, Adam > } > }Adam D. Mullen > }Compaq Premier Support > }Compaq Corp., Austin TX > }Phone: (800) 255-5010 > }Email adam.mullen@compaq.com -- Drew Sanford lauasanf@bellsouth.net or drew@planetwe.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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