[tulip] NetGear FA311 network card

[Argentium G. Tiger]

Jay Crews <jpc@doublelatte.com> writes:

>I recently got a Netgear model FA311 card, and am trying to get
>it to work with Red Hat Linux 6.2, which I assume uses the tulip
>module.  The install diskette had the source (fa311.c and fa311.h)
>on it, which compiled fine, but it still doesn't see the card
>at boot time.

I'm in the same boat - bought one of Netgear's "Network in a box" type
solutions, and ended up having to use Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100
cards rather than the Netgear FA311's that were provided.

I was using SuSE Linux 7.0 Professional, Kernel 2.2.16 with SuSE's
patches installed.  I replaced the tulip.c with the one provided on
the NetGear diskette, and did a full re-compile:

make dep clean bzImage modules modules_install

Installed my new kernel under /boot/test, put a section in for LILO,
ran /sbin/lilo, rebooted, and selected the new test kernel.

The card is seen, but I'm getting *horrible* performance (as I did with
the tulip.c that came with 2.2.16).  50% or more packets are dropped
outright, and this is on simple pings.  Forget doing anything useful
with these cards.  Maybe I'll use them in Windows boxes, they seem to work
perfectly fine with the provided drivers with that O/S.

Hoping there's a solution to this, I'm trying to dump Windows and go with
Linux exclusively, except for games... ;-)