[netdrivers] netgear FA311 issues.

[John McBride]

I thought you might be interested in the following info about this card.

It's working fine for me now, but it seems to be sensitive to the 
motherboard in which it is used. In my experience, this NIC is unusable 
on some AMD K6-2 motherboards using the VIA chipset.

regards,
John

Andy Green wrote:

 > On Monday 28 June 2004 08:44, John McBride wrote:
 >
 >> I bought one of these cards because it says "Linux" on the box, only to
 >> find it seems to have severe problems...or maybe it's the "natsemi" 
driver?
 >>
 >> In particular it floods the logs and console with "ethX: PCI error
 >> 0x800000" whenever I try to bring it up...I saw something on the web
 >> about this being a "parity error".
 >
 >
 > Do some BIOSes not have the ability to ignore #PERR on PCI?  Have a 
look at your settings.
 >

Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately my Bios does not have this setting.

I worked the problem for awhile this morning:

1) yum update to the 2194 kernel.
2) try the RedHat 7.2 source code off the supplied netgear CDROM.
3) try the scyld.com pci-scan.o and natsemi.o modules.

All gave the same or similar errors...usually "PCI error" or "Something 
Wicked" and then 0x800000 or some similar number.

Then I tried swapping the card into another updated Fedora Core 1 
machine. I took it out of the K-6/2 400 mhz I was trying to dual home 
(with another NIC using the 8139 chip) and swapped it into my athlon 1.2 
ghz.

Now the athlon has this "MacPhyter" netgear fa311 board (it's the XXX16 
chip) and the old K-6 has two 8139 based NICs, dual homed.

And now everything is working just peachy. Must be something about that 
K6 mobo and via chipset? Or combining the netgear fa311 with an 8139 in 
the same box? The mobo is an Epox MVP3C or some such.

I'm just going to leave it this way since everything is working, unless 
someone wants me to run some more tests.

---
John


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