NetGear, was Re: I get timeouts

2001-07-10 Thread John Groseclose

At 1:22 AM +0200 7/11/01, Henning Brauer wrote:

The Realtek cards and in special the netgear ones are pure crap, but I'm not
aware about such problems with them.

The original revision of the NetGear cards apparently used a real 
tulip driver - I had two of the original cards, and two of the later 
ones (FA310TX) and the older ones work flawlessly, while the later 
ones do all kinds of bizarre things.
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John Groseclose
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Re: NetGear, was Re: I get timeouts

2001-07-10 Thread Scott Gifford

John Groseclose [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 At 1:22 AM +0200 7/11/01, Henning Brauer wrote:
 
 The Realtek cards and in special the netgear ones are pure crap, but I'm not
 aware about such problems with them.
 
 The original revision of the NetGear cards apparently used a real
 tulip driver - I had two of the original cards, and two of the later
 ones (FA310TX) and the older ones work flawlessly, while the later
 ones do all kinds of bizarre things.

On Linux 2.2.x, try switching to the newer National Semiconductor
drivers:

http://www.scyld.com/network/netsemi.html

All of my weird problems disappeared when I switched to this driver.

-ScottG.