I've got the weirdest problem.
A friend bought a netgear FA-311 ethernet card, supposedly works with linux. (Well, ok, it supposedly works with a certain version of Red Hat, which is at least one version of linux. We won't go any further, ok? ;-) So, I took their (netgear's) sources, managed to get them to compile and load under mandrake - I could not get things to work at all. So, I did a web search and found some network drivers that were supposed to work with the fa-311, supplied as a SRPM. So I built my own rpm from their src rpm, installed it, and things looked like they were working fine - until I actually hooked it up to my network at home. The short version: subject machine: Mandrake 7.2, with the afore-mentioned network drivers installed, P200, 64meg ram, etc. diagnostic machines: I think they are both mandrake 7.2 as well, but don't quote me on that ;-) My home network is 10.40.2.0 with a netmask of 255.255.254.0 I set up the fa-311 box with an address of 10.40.2.20, netmask 255.255.254.0, and tried to ping my machine 10.40.3.1, which is definately up and talking on the net. The transmit light on the fa-311 card flashes, as though it were transmitting packets. But, I don't get an answer. So, I go and do an arp -a on the two machines on my network that I know work, and I don't see the fa-311 machine. So, I try pinging the other way. The fa-311 does not reply. And the 2 machines don't have anything in their arp table either. Has anyone seen anything like this with the FA-311? Even more importantly, has anyone gotten it and fixed it??? thanks! rc
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