Kam Salisbury on Mon, 5 Aug 2002 06:52:28 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] eth0


Could it be one of the FA311's that were shipped from the factory with the
wrong firmware on the board? I ran into this problem. There is a writeup on
Netgear's support site about it.

Kam.
----- Original Message -----
From: <BillyWissman@netscape.net>
To: <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2002 10:01 PM
Subject: [PLUG] eth0


> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to configure a NetGear FA311 NIC, National Semiconductor chip,
natsemi.c driver on a Pentium 60/66 running Debian Woody and a 2.4.18
kernel.
>
> The system sees the NIC and driver, but when I run /sbin/dhclient to
configure dhcp I get "eth0: PCI error 0x800000". The error message keeps
repeating itself line after line and won't stop until I physically pull the
ether cable from the NIC.
>
> I have this same model NIC talking to the Internet without any problems in
a Pentium 3.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill
>
>
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