Re: NetGear troubles

Matthew Vanecek (mev0003@unt.edu)
Sat, 3 Apr 1999 14:45:07 -0600 (CST)


On 3 Apr, George Bonser spewed forth:
::
:: I am using the v90 tulip driver with a Net Gear FA 310TX. Motherboard is a
:: Tyan Tomcat. I can get the card to work about 10% of the time. If I do get
:: it to work, it stops working after a seemingly random period of time.
:: Other than the familliar "Transmitter Stopped!" messages, I get nothing
:: useful logged anywhere. Same problem with 2.0.36, 2.0.37 and 2.2.5
::
:: I have tried every slot on the bus, sometimes I can get it to work if I
:: ifconfig down the interface but most often not. In all cases, it seems to
:: silently stop working after some period of inactivity.
::
:: Is there some magic tweak I can make in the driver to get this thing to
:: work?
::
::
::
:: George Bonser

Use the driver that NetGear sends with it's cards, assuming it's a new
card. If you bought the card recently, NetGear includes a tulip.c on
it's driver disk in the 'Linux' directory. cp that to
linux/drivers/net/tulip.c, replacing the one that comes with the kernel.
Select the DEC Tulip driver as usual, and recompile the kernel.

That's how mine works, anyhow. Just be sure, with each new kernel,
copy the NG tulip.c, replacing the one that comes with the kernel. As
far as I can tell, tulip.c hasn't been touched in quite a while, as
it's never in any of the patches. Personally, I think they should make
the NetGear tulip.c into it's own driver, instead of keeping it
bundled up with DEC.

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