Netgear GA311 (RealTek 8169 chipset) PCI network card and fc5

[taharka]

How do,

On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 19:10 +0100, Greg Frith wrote:


> Thanks for your comments Norm.  Unfortunately (for me) i think there
> may be a lot of sense in what you say.  I did however get the wireless
> cad working in the end, after compiling ndiswrapper and then using
> this to load a Win32 driver.  There was i thinking that any old box
> would be able to cope with an ethernet card.  BTW, the card is
> identified correctly in an 'lspci', and modprobe gives no errors when
> loading the r8169 driver.

Also, keep in mind, the majority of RealTek nics are the nic equivalent
of a win modem :-( Try replacing with an Intel or 3Com & see if that
makes a difference.

> --
> Greg Frith
> gfrith at gmail.com

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