The FA311 is a piece of junk. I bought that last week and tried to use
the driver that came on the diskette. The pre-compiled driver was for 2.2.5,
and the original source is apparently for 2.0.36. Couldn't get it compiled.
Sycld has drivers for the FA311, but the driver never found the card. I broke
down and got an Intel 82559-based instead (it worked).
Then again, this was an older HP box, so maybe there was a problem with
the PCI bus, I dunno. My preferences for cards are Tulip-based followed
by 82559-based. Never had a problem with either type of card, though the
Tulips are getting very hard to find.
-Mark
"Thomas M. Albright" wrote:
>
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Benjamin Scott wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Rich Payne wrote:
> > > True...however (IIRC), the driver on 3Com's site only supports a small
> > > subset of the cards that Becker's driver(s) supports, and 3com's only
> > > works on i386, whereas Becker's works on multiple archs. It's a pretty
> > > pathetic attempt.. in that respect they are right down there with Intel.
> > > However I must admit I do like the 3C905[bc] cards.
> >
> > Could well be. But, I'm curious: How many card vendors have actually
> > written and support their own Linux drivers? Most of the ones I've seen have
> > relied on independent implementations, written by Donald Becker, more often
> > then not. :-)
> >
> NetGear. Although the 310 just included/used the tulip driver, the 311
> comes with:
> fa311.c
> fa311.h
> makefile
>
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