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From: "Daniel J Blueman" <daniel.blueman@btinternet.com>
To: "'Stevie O'" <stevie@qrpff.net>,
	"'Jeff Garzik'" <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: 2.2.20: pci-scan+natsemi & Device or resource busy
Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 13:22:27 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000001c1a735$ab27c4a0$0100a8c0@stratus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020126211133.01ce7ff0@whisper.qrpff.net>

The kernel NatSemi driver works perfectly for me with a Netgear FA-311
network card. Kernel is 2.4.17. I haven't tried it modular though...

Dmesg output:

[snip]
natsemi.c:v1.07 1/9/2001  Written by Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
  http://www.scyld.com/network/natsemi.html
  (unofficial 2.4.x kernel port, version 1.07+LK1.0.13, Oct 19, 2001
Jeff Garzi
k, Tjeerd Mulder)
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:0a.0
eth0: NatSemi DP8381[56] at 0xc8009000, 00:02:e3:0a:98:5a, IRQ 11.
eth0: Transceiver status 0x7849 advertising 05e1.
[snip]

Dan
____________________
Daniel J Blueman 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org 
> [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Stevie O
> Sent: 27 January 2002 02:13
> To: Jeff Garzik
> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: 2.2.20: pci-scan+natsemi & Device or resource busy
> 
> 
> At 09:06 PM 1/26/2002 -0500, Stevie O wrote:
> >At 07:07 PM 1/26/2002 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >>Stevie O wrote:
> >> > My friend is trying Linux for the first time. I'm having him use 
> >> > the pci-scan and natsemi modules for his Netgear FA-311 
> card. With 
> >> > the initial
> >>
> >>These aren't Linux drivers, they are scyld.com drivers...  See 
> >>http://scyld.com/ for support and more info...
> >
> >Ahah! Thank you :P
> >
> >/me smacks himself for not verifying that he'd found the 
> right drivers
> >
> >Any idea what drivers I *do* need?
> >
> 
> Erm, wait...
> 
> A google for "linux fa-311 driver" yields this as the first result:
> 
http://www.scyld.com/network/ethercard.html

The title of this page is "Linux Drivers for PCI Ethernet Chips"...

Netgear isn't exactly a small company, I'm finding it hard to believe
that 
NOBODY has ever tried to create a module for one of their cards...


--
Stevie-O

Real programmers use COPY CON PROGRAM.EXE

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-01-27 13:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20020127095000.GA11142@elektroni.ee.tut.fi>
2002-01-26 23:37 ` Stevie O
2002-01-27  0:07   ` Jeff Garzik
2002-01-27  2:06   ` Stevie O
2002-01-27  2:13   ` Stevie O
2002-01-27 13:22     ` Daniel J Blueman [this message]
2002-01-27 18:43   ` 2.2.20: pci-scan+natsemi & Device or resource busy [Success!] Stevie O
2002-01-28  4:48   ` 2.2.20: pci-scan+natsemi & Device or resource busy J Sloan
2002-01-28 18:22 Torrey Hoffman
2002-02-20 14:10 ` Jes Sorensen

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