Netgear FA310TX Problems

David Carlin djc6@eecs.cwru.edu
Thu Oct 28 13:54:24 1999


On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, William J. Earl wrote:

>      This looks to me like the known problem with the 82c168.  The
> oversized frame is really a normal frame prefixed with a lot of
> garbage.  It seems to be related to running in half-duplex mode at 10
> Mbit.  As near as I can tell, it is triggered by a small packet
> arriving at the interface just after a large packet has been
> transmitted, perhaps somehow confusing the 83c168 as it switches from
> transmitting to receiving.

I downloaded driver version 4.02 from Netgear's site and the card has
worked fine.  I'm at 10MB half duplex, and I still get the same errors,
but the machine remains on the network.  Any idea what they did to the
driver to make it work?

		-David

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