hello again,

there have been alot of posts on this problem and after 4 20 hour days of trying to get this card to work I think I will give up and take it back....

does anyone have a particular card that is currently running on RH72?? if so where did the driver come from?

i called netgear they were no help said they do not support linux in any way, which is indeed the case-- i tried to get the IRQ number that is suggested from them and they don't know. I am so close to getting it working but I guess I will rip it out and start with a different one.

thanks again,
myra

If I heard the words:
I'd have been in the car on the way back to the store before the phone teckie could say bye.

Don't waste you time with the card, just get one that will work with linux. The last card I bought is a Linksys 10/100 and it worked on the first boot using the Tulip driver.

I had a lot of trouble with this card a few years back, when I first started playing with Mandrake Linux. After a week of getting nowhere, the guy that writes the drivers for NICs sent me an updated tulip driver for the Netgear and it worked. Another thing to note before jumping for joy is that even in MS Windows, my network file transfer bandwidth was throttled at 300 K/s for reasons unknown. My suggestion is to toss the Netgear card and get something better, like 3 COM or Linksys. On my 3COM 100 Mbps NIC, I get 6.5 MB/s .

That was REAL nice. I hit "Submit Replay" and Microsoft IE spawned around 50 child processes of the same webpage!!! I had to kill my connection by turning off my DSL modem before it spawned more child processes and crash my system.

hmmm... I finally got the card working -- by working mean the eth0 is up.. still cant ping XP and XP cant ping linux. so maybe it isn't working.

thanks for the info think I will go get a different card, and put this one in windoze box I'm working on for someone else
( for free!! )