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Hi!

Has anyone used Solaris 7 (Intel) with a NetGear FA310TX Fast Ethernet PCI
Card?

I am trying to find what the interface number would be?

With my 3COM Etherlink III, the Interface name was eth0, but with the
NetGear card, I cannot seem to find what the network Interface is called.

Hope there is someone out there who could help me.

Thank you and best regards,

Sanu...

Hi sanu, I think the netgear cards are based on a DEC chipset (probably
Tulip) which has been discussed several times in this news group. If you
do a power search (with the exact model of the card) you should be able
to find those articles. There is another thing I want to point out, is
that check the documentation if that card is NE2000 compatible. If it is
then you don't have to worry about it being a Tulip card or not. Then
you can use the name nei0 or nei1 (depending on the number of same cards
that you ahve). and follow the directions in this link

http://sun.pmbc.com/faq/s86faq.html

and go to topic 6.6

good luck.

Azharul

Quote:> Hi!

> Has anyone used Solaris 7 (Intel) with a NetGear FA310TX Fast Ethernet
PCI
> Card?

> I am trying to find what the interface number would be?

> With my 3COM Etherlink III, the Interface name was eth0, but with the
> NetGear card, I cannot seem to find what the network Interface is
called.

> Hope there is someone out there who could help me.

> Thank you and best regards,

> Sanu...

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Before you buy.

I have a different netgear card.
It comes up as dnet0.

either way, you should see something indicative either at boot time, or
with the output of "dmesg"

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Does solaris7 use the "latest" nics from netgear & linksys?
The "latest" versions of netgear & linksys uses the PNIC
chipset and is a "work-alike" with the DEC (tulip) chipset
as per the linux nic driver website.  The nics don't obviously
say what chipset is being used.

The need is that my 3com 905b died and solaris won't recognize
the ndc (sohoware) nic which is the MXIC(?) dec chipset work-alike.
I don't believe the 3com is worth the price and the "tulip"
is better; at least it ran on the linux box which the 3com didn't.

The solaris docs only mention the DECs and sun isn't concerned
with any driver updates.

Last Asante 10/100 pci boards I saw were made in Fall 98 and
had real Tulip chips, and work with Sol 86.

Seem to be 40-60 dollars at CompUSA.

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Try posting a message on the Netgear site, there was a tech support contact
page. You might get lucky

Jeff Goldner
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|Has anyone used Solaris 7 (Intel) with a NetGear FA310TX Fast Ethernet PCI
|Card?

Probably the successful ones were using the old ones that had the
"digital 21140" chip on them.  The newer ones with the "NETGEAR"
(Lite-On PNIC) chip are less likely to be supported.

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