Re: [LUG] FA411

[trewornan <trewornan@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks very much for all this info - I'll have a go at
this "pcnet_cs" stuff.

Mark

PS - no way it's a broken card!


 --- Simon Waters <Simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> trewornan wrote:
> >  --- Kai Hendry <hendry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> > 
> > Netgear FA411 PCMCIA NIC.
> > 
> > 
> >>Try Knoppix. 
> 
> Always worth a try, it just works with my most
> wireless and wired
> ethernet cards, although a few versios did get the
> wrong driver for
> Orinoco cards - that was due to a typo in the
> PCMCIA_CS package (they
> were a little behind the cutting edge).
> 
> > CD on this laptop is broken.
> 
> Is that broken broken, or does it share an interrupt
> with the PCMCIA
> controler ;)
> 
> >>Tried this "card" in some other machines/OS?
> > 
> > 
> > I've seen this card working on another laptop
> running
> > redhat 9 and it works fine under windows.
> 
> The magic module is pcnet_cs this is the driver for
> the FA411. It is
> tried and tested technology, some might say a bit
> long in the tooth.
> 
> Things only beeps if the pcmcia manager stuff is
> running, and as you
> diagnosed this is about getting the right modules
> for the controller
> chipset.
> 
> i82365 is the common 'old' Intel PCMCIA controller
> chipset, it is
> getting rarer these days, but is well supported
> under Linux (and
> anything else that has PCMCIA sockets probably).
> 
> You shouldn't have to guess which PCMCIA controller
> you have, it should
> be in the manual for the laptop, and I think lspci
> will list it on most
> laptops. Although later kernels may attempt to drive
> them all through
> the yenta sockets stuff you don't always have to do
> what the OS wants
> you to (this is Linux not MS Windows).
> 
> Haven't tried it under Redat 9, but if at first it
> doesn't work, I aways
> just install the latest PCMCIA_CS packages, these
> drivers are usually a
> few months ahead of the kernel, and thus do more
> magic in sorting out
> interrupts and IO ports.
> 
> You can of course have thoroughly nobbled things in
> the BIOS, or by
> building your own kernels, but if you avoided these
> paths away from the
> Redhat way, I'd expect it to just work, possibly
> with a hint about what
> PCMCIA chipset you have.
> 
> ou are confident it isn't that the hardware is
> broke?
> 

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