Noah Meyerhans wrote: > On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 11:16:23AM +0100, Tony Hoyle wrote: > >>Enabling promiscuous mode & leaving it a few minutes on the fa311 makes >>it start working. I'll have to stick a line in /etc/network/interfaces >>until I get a better card. > > > Or just upgrade your kernel. The card is OK from my experiences, and
I'm on 2.4.18 - there's nowhere to upgrade to yet... unless I go to 2.5.x which I'm not brave enough for at the moment.
> the driver saw a fair bit of development since the 2.4 kernel's > original release. According to the changelog, multicast was fixed in > version 1.0.7 of the driver (which corresponds to which Linux kernel, > exactly? Damn this lack of revision control.).
Looks like they broke it again....
> The changelogs indicate that performance related work was done as well, > so you might find that you aren't so desperate to replace the cards if > you upgrade the software that drives them...
The performance of these cards does suck badly. It sucks in Windows too so I don't think it's just the driver - although the driver quality on these cards is far from great (the card was originally bought for a windows box that I didn't care much about, but the driver kept blue-screening so I had to swap it with my 3com).
Tony
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