Messages in this thread | | | From | Torrey Hoffman <> | Subject | RE: natsemi.c (Netgear FA311 card) probmlems?? | Date | Wed, 28 Mar 2001 09:38:55 -0800 |
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Troy Benjegerdes wrote: [...] > Is anyone succesfully using a FA311 card (or anthing with a NatSemi > DP83815 chip?)
We are working on the 2.2.x version of the driver. On our hardware, which has the DP83815 on the motherboard, Donald Becker's version was capable of sending packets but not receiving. I swapped some email with him on the subject about 6 weeks ago, sent him some debug output, but haven't heard anything recently.
Meanwhile, we are doing some work on it ourselves. A "Jocelyn Mayer" posted a revised version of the driver which fixed some bugs but introduced others - at least on our hardware. Check the archives.
Our version now sends and receives under 2.2.17, and is fixed to read and set the MAC address properly (!), but tends to have lousy performance. Large file transfers usually run at a pathetic 250 KB/s and often stall, but sometimes when the moon is in the right phase, run at a much more reasonable 7 MB/s. We are working on it...
If anyone else out there has some improvements, I would love to hear about them.
Torrey Hoffman
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