[plug] netgear nic

[Craig Ringer]

Jon Miller wrote:
> Has anyone successfully gotten a fa311 nic to work with Debian 3.0r2?

IIRC the FA311 went through something like five different chipsets over 
its very long life. I clearly recall having issues with one before, too.

> Got one in a system that cannot receive pings.

Have you ensured there are no iptables rules set? Does `tcpdump' or 
`ethereal' show any incoming traffic? Tried the card in a different slot?

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Craig Ringer