RE: Red Hat 8.0 Netgear FA311 identification and IRQ assignment

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Robert:  I installed Psyche on our Dell Dimension 4300 (P4 1600 MHz)
last night.  It has one of those problematic Netgear FA311 PCI NICs in
it. In my case, it installed out of the box and came up immediately on
our home LAN. However, this afternoon, when I switched from MS Win ME to
Psyche, I had trouble. The box couldn't get an IP address from our DHCP
server (a Linksys Router/Switch).  I went back to Win ME and it worked
OK and then back into Psyche and then it worked OK.

The FA311 is known to be problematic.  The older card, the Netgear
FA310TX is a joy to use (I have never had a problem with one), but they
have been discontinued by Netgear.  Recently, CircuitCity.com had them
for US$9.99 each, a true bargain for a fine product.

The same Netgear FA311,brand new, was installed in this box (Dell
Dimension XPS T500) in January 2001, when they came out to install our
Cable Modem service. MS Win 98 SE was the OS.  We tried and tried to get
the card to work properly, but it wouldn't, so I removed it and replaced
it with the FA310TX that is in it today.

I don't have the solution to your problem but the bottom line is that
the card should work, out of the box, if during installation you told it
to run at boot.

Lanny in Cali, Colombia, South America

P.S.
I tried to "Cut" and "Paste"  your message, so I could reply normally,
but I cannot get that to work in Evolution 1.0.8-10, so I will switch to
Mozilla for e-mail.




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