[tulip] Limited success with Netgear FA310TX problem

[David Winter]

Hi Paul --

Congrats that you got it working in some form.  Given that we've narrowed it
down to some sort of initialization, I would imagine the answer may lie in
trying different options to the driver (in particular half/full duplex).  You
had mentioned that you were looking into different tulip options -- did you
have a chance to try that?  If that led nowhere, perhaps there is something in
the code itself that needs to be hacked... but that would be where my
experience with the driver pretty much ends. :)

Dave

On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, Paul Bombach wrote:

> Thanks to all that sent responses (in particular Dave Winter) about the
> problem with the Netgear FA310TX problem I posted last week. I'm still
> experiencing problems but have had some limited success. When I connect my
> Linux box with the FA310TX NIC directly to another box using a crossover
> cable, everything works just fine. However, when I try to connect my Linux
> machine with the FA310TX to a Linksys Cable Modem Router/Switch (befsr41), I
> get no success at all. Dave Winter pointed out that NIC cards based on the
> Lite-ON PNIC 82c168 have a problem with this particular switch. This leads
> me to 2 questions:
> 
>     1. What exactly is the interaction between the NIC and the switch?
>     2. Why would the NIC function under Windows 95 but not under Linux. What
> sort of
> 	 initialization difference is there between W95 and Linux?
> 
> Thanks in advance for any help.
> 
> Paul Bombach
> 
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