Netgear GA311 (RealTek 8169 chipset) PCI network card and fc5
taharka
res00vl8 at alltel.net
Thu Sep 28 19:10:20 UTC 2006
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
taharka
Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.
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