[ale] Netgear FA311?

[Chris Woodruff]

Don't quote me but this card doesn't use the chipset that tulip supports. 
I know I was talking to some friends at ALS and told them I was going to
buy a NetGear card and was warned to make sure that it was supported by the
tulip driver.  I think NetGear has changed chipsets in the newest cards.

But remember to not quote me.  Just doublecheck before buying a nic card
for linux before getting it.

Chris Woodruff

On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 12:54:09 -0700 "Joseph A. Knapka" wrote:

> "Robert L. Harris" wrote:
> > 
> > I have a friend building out his first box.  We're trying to put
> him
> > on a 2.4 kernel and he has a NetGear FA311.  I have a FA310,
> which
> > uses the dec tulip chipset.  This driver doesn't see his card. I
> put
> > the kernel driver that comes on the floppy in
> /usr/src/linux/drivers/net
> > and did a "gcc -o fa311.o fa311.c" and it spewed ALOT of errors.
>  If
> > I screwed something up, what?  I've never tried this before.
> 
> You probably need to add at least -DMODULE and -D__KERNEL__ to the
> gcc command line. There should be a README on the disk that
> tells you exactly how to build the driver.
> 
> HTH,
> 
> -- Joe
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