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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Sindi Keesan wrote:

> I returned the two winbond-840 pci cards and got two others.
> One is a Netgear FA311 which is supported in linux and takes the natsemi 
> driver.  (I have not checked whether SW71 provides this as a module).
It does not.


> The other has a big MPX chip which is not the maker.  I searched on the 
> FCC number to no avail.  Found 143127-411 drivers at driverguide for DOS 
> and Win98 and it says this is an SMC card.  The linux online howto says 
> SMC bought out other companies and various of its cards use wd, smc-ultra, 
> tulip, or rtl8139, but this card was not listed at all.

A google search on 143127-411 got me back to the driverguide listing and I
looked at the included files for this card number (aka LF-H50M, Lancom)  
for the Windows/DOS drivers and there is much mention of rtl8139!!!!!

Sticking it in the computer and running net.i would probably have also 
given me the same results but I am not at a linux computer.

My other pci card has an rtl8139 chip on it so with luck I will have a 
working pair of these to replace the BNC pci cards which use ne2k-pci.

I think Steven added an additional driver module or two to BL3, hopefully 
including the rtl8139.  Tulip is another common one, used by many 
intel-chip clones, but it is rather large.  Perhaps these could be 
compiled smaller without things like wake on LAN.