[plug] New Netgear FA310TX cards

[Garth Atkinson]

How did you go Matt?

Matt Kemner wrote:
> 
> Morning All
> 
> Has anybody managed to get one of the recent Netgear FA310TX cards to
> work?
> 
> It appears they've changed the chipset on them yet again.  The main
> noticeable difference is the main chipset (which used to be a "digital"
> tulip chip) is now marked LC82C169C, where the older ones are marked
> NGMC169B.
> 
> I have tried the tulip.c that comes standard in both 2.0.36 and 2.2.7, as
> well as the tulip.c netgear provide on the disk, and the latest tulip.c
> found on Donald Becker's site. They all show the same problem, which is of
> huge packet loss.
> 
> Since Netgear provide a modified version of tulip.c on their disk, with a
> techinical support email contact, I figured a detailed email to them would
> mean the problem would be fixed quickly.
> 
> I have since received 3 emails from them.
> 
> The first told me to download the updated drivers from their site - the
> Linux driver is in a self-extracting .exe file along with the rest of
> their drivers, so I had to find a windoze box to extract it (unzip didn't
> work) only to find the driver was identical to the one on the floppy.
> 
> When I replied they told me to go look at Donald Becker's site.
> When I told them his latest driver didn't work either, and did they
> actually support Linux, they told me they don't support Linux, but that
> the card works with Linux, and by the way have I seen this site? (and
> pointed me back at Donald Becker's site)
> 
> I'm sure Donald Becker will fix it eventually - after all we went through
> the same thing when Netgear first changed from the authentic tulip chipset
> to their clone.  I'm just disappointed because they list Linux on the box
> as a supported operating system, but they don't even have a Linux machine
> to test new chipsets on.
> 
>  - Matt

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