Re: Netgear FA310TX

[Marty Connor <mdc@thinguin.org>]

On 1/7/2000 1:59 PM cjames@msi.com Craig A. James wrote:
>I just subscribed to this group, so apologies if this is a repeat 
>question.  Is there an Etherboot driver for the Netgear FA310TX card, or 
>is anyone working on one?

Funny you should ask :-) we were just discussing this today. Here's the 
URL of a message in the netboot archives that I sent on the subject.

     http://www.han.de/~gero/netboot/archive/msg02531.html

There was a report that the tulip driver in the Etherboot package may 
work for with some FA310TXs, but it didn't work for the one I just bought.

What companies will sometimes do is to change the hardware on the card, 
but keep the product name the same.  They just ship different drivers 
with the cards, and most people never notice. I've taken to naming driver 
output 'mx98715.rom' or "lc82c115.rom" because several companies use the 
chip on their cards, and the driver chip often seems more relevant that 
product names like "warm and fuzzy ethernet card" or "wiener-ware 10/100 
fast".  I literally bought 4 different rtl8139-based cards under 4 
different brands! (Accton, SMC, Allied-Telesyn, and D-Link).

Anyway, the short answer is that the FA310TX is a tulip clone, and the 
tulip.lzrom driver might work, or might not;  If you could do me the 
favor of take a look at your FA310TX card and sending in what is printed 
on the controller chip (the big square one), that would be a help.

We should get this sorted out soon.

Regards,

Marty

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