Lanny, Thank you very much for the reply. Sounds like I have a very similar environment at home as I also have a Linksys Router/Switch connected to my cable modem. We have a Circuit City fairly close - I'm going to call over there to see if they can find me a FA310TX. Someone had also mentioned using an Intel EtherExpress Pro, but I find that the local stores (Circuit City, Best Buy, Staples, etc.) only carry the cheaper brands, such as Linksys, Netgear, Siemens, etc. The FA311 works fine with Win2kPro. I'm waiting until I have a free half hour to take it out and put it in a different slot. Other people have mentioned that they don't have problems with the card, but I've also found lots of threads with people who do have trouble. I did tell the card to activate at boot - and it just errors out trying to share IRQ 0. Bob --__--__-- Message: 9 Subject: RE: Red Hat 8.0 Netgear FA311 identification and IRQ assignment From: Lanny Marcus <lanny@calidama.com> To: psyche-list@redhat.com Date: 04 Nov 2002 20:50:22 -0500 Reply-To: psyche-list@redhat.com 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. --__--__-- Message: 11 Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 20:58:37 -0500 From: Hal Burgiss <hal@foobox.net> To: psyche-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: Red Hat 8.0 NetGear FA311 identification and IRQ assignment. Reply-To: psyche-list@redhat.com On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 12:16:43PM -0500, Robert R Baer wrote: > > Everything else on the system is correctly identified and works. > There is very little hardware, and several IRQ's are free, so this > shouldn't be a problem. > > Anyone have an idea on what to try next? Its a BIOS related problem. Do you have an option to disable PnP, or non-PnP OS, or some variation of this? I have the same card and its worked fine since day one. In fact, it exists side by side with an onboard eepro. -- Hal Burgiss --__--__-- End of Psyche-list Digest -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
