[tulip] Netgear FA310TX

[Gong Su]

Thus did "Paul Bombach" <pbombach@umich.edu> write:
*>I'm having problems with my Netgear FA310TX card under Redhat 7.0. It seems
*>to be recognized OK. I get the following from dmesg:
*>
*>	tulip.c:v0.92 4/17/2000 Written by Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
*>	  http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html
*>	eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC rev 32 at 0xfc00, 00:A0:CC:58:B6:27, IRQ 10.
*>	eth0: MII transceiver #1 config 3000 status 7829 advertising 01e1
*>
*>However, when I try to perform the following commands
*>
*>	/sbin/ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.50 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast
*>192.168.1.255
*>	/sbin/route add 192.168.1.0
*>
*>I get the following error message:
*>
*>	SIOCADDRT: No such device
*>
*>I'm at a bit of a loss. Could someone point me in the right direction on how
*>to resolve this.
*>
*>Thanks!
*>
*>Paul Bombach
*>
*>
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/sbin/route add 192.168.1.0 is an invalid and unnecessary command. When you
configure the broadcast interface 192.168.1.50, the kernel will automatically
add a route to net 192.168.1.0 (which I suppose was what you were trying to
do with the route coommand).

/Gong