I have heard a ton of reports that the NetGear FA311 is the crappiest network 
card on the planet.  I know of one distro that won't even support them.  They 
refuse to put up with the problems that they have with the card.  In fact 
they say that all the FA311 NICs that they find they bury in their back yard.

I would have to recommend getting a couple of Intel EEPRO 100 NICs.  Much 
better in my opinion, and it won't cost that much.  The cost is worth it in 
the trouble you save.

Just my opinion.

Bret.




On Thursday 07 February 2002 04:14 am, you wrote:
> On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 12:37, Austad, Jay wrote:
> > Typically, if you have frame or carrier errors, it's usually a bad cable.
> > Could be your switch or card too.  It's almost 100% not a configuration
> > problem.
>
> Doh!
>
> Someone reminded me that I forgot to include the hardware configuration:
>
> - Abit KTA7 RAID Motherboard
> - Athlon 1.4 GHz Thunderbird Processor
> - RH 7.2
> - NetGear FA311 using the DP83810 Chipset and Natsemi driver
> - LinkSys 10/100 5-port hub
>
>
> I replaced the cable with a different one and moved the port to a
> different one.  I am still seeing significant packet loss.  A ping to a
> different box will result in about 15% packet loss. I have another card
> but it is also a NetGear FA311.  My next course of action is to find an
> updater driver (if one exists) and install that.

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