GA302T NIC

[Tony Wasson]

Craig - I would look at the "bge" driver set. I think it will support your
GA302T. If you still can't get it going, try trading the card.

The GA302 'networking guts' are on the single Broadcom chip of your card.
The card does 10/100 in the same chip, this helps to keep cost down. I doubt
you'll be able to get the 100Mbps going and not have the 1000Mbps portion
working too.

Here's other NICs supported by the bge driver:
     * 3Com 3c996-SX, 3c996-T
     * SysKonnect SK-9D21 and 9D41

A google search found at least 1 other guy trying to install this NIC, with
limited success. Maybe you can email him:
http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2001-Dec/3081.html

HTH!
Tony Wasson

----- Original Message -----
From: "Gontran Zepeda" <gontran@gontran.net>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 3:55 PM
Subject: Re: GA302T NIC


> * Craig S. (castone@getnet.net) wrote:
> >
> > * Craig S. (castone@getnet.net) wrote:
> > > [ Gigabit network card from Netgear. ]
> > > [ ... ]
> > > 1) I should give up now because there is no driver support for the
card.
> >
> > [ to the tune of that lady in pulp fiction, flipping out in the
> >   restaurant: 'modprobe every last muthafing one of 'em!' ]
> >
> > Previous Msg
> > --------------------------------------------------------
> > Reply
> >
> > [ kernel 2.4.16 ]
> >
> > If there is no way to use the 1000MBit driver what would be the harm in
> > trying to run the card as just a regular 100 MBit card? Other than not
being
> > able to run the card to it's full potential. Or is this just not
possible?
>
> Now that's using a 12ga.!  IANANICDW (NIC Driver Writer), but I would
> suspect that it's not possible to use a 10/100 driver (which one?) with a
> different chipset, in general.  YMMV.
>
> Gontran
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