> From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Dec 4 12:09:28 1998
> > > I got a Netgear FB 104 kit for $133. It has 2 FA310TX, 1 FE104 hub and
> > > 2 25' cables. The card works with tulip driver 0.89K and 0.90.
> >
> > Unfortunately, Netgear no longer uses the tulip chipset in that card.
> > They haven't changed the model number so you won't know what you have
>
> It is ok as long as you use the tulip.c they provide or the latest
> development one. BTW, I am using the one with the tulip clone.
>
> > until you eyeball the card. Apparently, they claim "linux support"
> > for the card, but that's based on it being a tulip-based card.
>
> They include a copy of tulip.c on their driver disk. But I use
> the newer one.
>
> >
> > I'd steer clear until someone writes a driver for the new chipset.
> >
> > The original author of the tulip driver posted a note about the
> > less than wholesome way Netgear treated this change.
> >
>
> The current development tulip.c driver supports all Netgear
> FA310TX cards and other tulip clones. I got
>
> tulip.c:v0.90 10/20/98 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> eth0: Digital DC21040 Tulip at 0xe000, 00 40 c7 94 0c 61, IRQ 10.
> eth1: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC at 0xd800, 00 a0 cc 3b 86 8b, IRQ 11.
> eth1: MII transceiver #1 config 1000 status 782d advertising 01e1.
> eth1: The transmitter stopped! CSR5 is 2678016, CSR6 812e2002.
> eth1: Changing PNIC configuration to half-duplex, CSR6 812e0000.
I also thought becker mentioned that the supplied driver was not
done well. Is the current driver any better? Assuming that both
incarnations of the card are functional, is there a reason to
prefer the true tulip rather than the clone?
C
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