[lug] fa311, or What is all this kernel business anyway

[Ian S. Nelson]

Is this a natsemi "macphyter" based product.  83815, I beleive is the part
number.  I've got an assortment of drivers that should work.   I ported the
natsemi produced driver to 2.4..

Chris Wade wrote:

> Hurm.  Downloaded the driver, encountered problems.  Has anyone gotten this
> to work with SuSE w/ kernel 2.2.18?  I guess the real problem here is that I
> don't know exactly what the kernel is or how to upgrade it.
>
> Netgear's latest driver is for RH7.1/2.4, the beta ones before that only go
> up to 2.2.16-22.  I picked the latest beta before the 2.4 version.  When I
> put fa311.o into /lib/modules/2.2.18/net/ and do 'insmod fa311', I get
> 'kernel-module version mismatch ... fa311.o was compiled for kernel version
> 2.2.16-22 while this kernel is version 2.2.18.'
>
> So... time for a lesson in linux basics, I guess...
>
> The extent of my knowledge/guessing about the kernel is that it is the
> 'core' of linux, the part that actually does all the interfacing with the
> hardware.  I gather that you can upgrade the kernel without affecting much
> else on your system, but I've obviously never done it.  Can anyone either
> tell me how or point me to some docs on upgrading the kernel, and/or give me
> some help with getting this fa311 working?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chris
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Greg Horne [mailto:jeerygh at hotmail.com]
> > Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 5:21 PM
> > To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> > Subject: Re: [lug] Knowledge shopping list
> >
> >
> > If your NIC is an FA311TX, then that's your problem.  It seems that
> > FA310TX's are supported and I think 312 but not 311's.  I
> > believe there is a
> > patch on www.netgear.com
> >
> > Greg Horne
> >
> > >From: Chris Wade <cwade at veripost.net>
> > >Reply-To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> > >To: "'lug at lug.boulder.co.us'" <lug at lug.boulder.co.us>
> > >Subject: [lug] Knowledge shopping list
> > >Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 12:59:13 -0600
> > >
> > >Thanks all for all the help and information on telnetd
> > security.  I am
> > >inspired to put together a 'knowledge shopping list' with
> > all the things I
> > >am going to need to know to get my setup working the way I
> > want it.. any
> > >pointers to technical docs, previous threads etc. would be greatly
> > >appreciated... :)
> > >
> > >Here's what I have (hope my ascii graphics come across well):
> > >
> > >Internet
> > >  |
> > >  V
> > >At&t at home cable modem
> > >(supports NAT)
> > >  |
> > >  V
> > >Hub --> Suse 7.1 Pro w/ everything installed
> > >  |----> Win2000 Laptop, used for VPN to work
> > >  |----> WinME laptop (ugh)
> > >
> > >This setup is okay, we all get out to the internet with it,
> > but I want to
> > >do
> > >a lot more.  Here's what I think I would like:
> > >
> > >Internet
> > >  |
> > >  V
> > >Something better than cable modem for running a server
> > >  |
> > >  V
> > >Suse 7.1 acting as firewall, web server, mailrouter,
> > gateway, development
> > >environment
> > >  |
> > >  V
> > >Hub
> > >  |
> > >  V
> > >Home network consisting of The abovementioned Windows
> > laptops plus an old
> > >PowerMac
> > >
> > >
> > >I've read messages here where people refer to setups like
> > this that they
> > >have running... is this pretty standard?  I know that, at a
> > minimum, I want
> > >to be running Apache w/PHP 4.0.6 with mysql and
> > postgresql... haven't used
> > >postgres at all but would like to learn it... I'm okay with
> > setting up the
> > >Apache/PHP stuff.  I've done that so many times at work it
> > makes me dizzy.
> > >But I also need to figure out how to get my second network
> > card running
> > >(Netgear, box says linux supported but it didn't detect),
> > and then set it
> > >up
> > >so that I can still access the internet from all four
> > machines as well as
> > >get mail routed to the three behind the firewall.  I have a
> > domain pointed
> > >to this box... I use mail forwarding as a registrar service,
> > where all mail
> > >to my domain gets forwarded to a single address, but I would
> > like to have a
> > >lot more control over it (i.e. separate addresses to
> > separate mailboxes).
> > >Will still need to do VPN through the linux firewall to
> > work, and oh yes, I
> > >will want to set up Samba (which I've done) and Netatalk
> > (which I haven't
> > >done).
> > >
> > >At&t requests that you don't run a server w/ one of their
> > cable modems, and
> > >I can understand why... bandwidth shrinks dramatically in
> > the outgoing
> > >direction and tends to clog things up for everybody else.  Is there
> > >anything
> > >else of comparable cost that would be more amenable to this
> > kind of usage?
> > >If not, what am I looking at paying (roughly) if I want to
> > up my outgoing
> > >bandwidth by using some other service?
> > >
> > >Thanks in advance for help with all or just parts of this...
> > >
> > >Chris
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