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Netgear FA310TX-REV02 card.
I have an old Netgear FA310TX-REV02 Lan Adapter PCI card.
I can't find driver for it for XP or W7. I wud prefer the latter. All I get when I go to supposed download sites are downloads for driver upgrade software. Anyone steer me to a download loc for it? Maybe there is none. Thanks JW |
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Netgear FA310TX-REV02 card.
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I have an old Netgear FA310TX-REV02 Lan Adapter PCI card. I can't find driver for it for XP or W7. I wud prefer the latter. All I get when I go to supposed download sites are downloads for driver upgrade software. Anyone steer me to a download loc for it? Maybe there is none. Thanks JW The driver on the Netgear site, the files are dated 1999. http://www.downloads.netgear.com/fil...n%204.02.zi p So right away, you're screwed. ******* The EXE inside the ZIP, is just an archive, and not protected with InstallShield or anything. I can see inside it with 7ZIP. In the INF file, it is identified as: NETGEAR FA310TX Fast Ethernet PCI Adapter The INF file includes these identifiers. The fact they're quite different, implies a config prom can be used to change the ID of the chip (which is bad news, from a practical perspective). %21140M.DeviceDesc%=21140.ndi, PCI\VEN_1011&DEV_0009&SUBSYS_11001385 %Pnic.DeviceDesc%=Pnic.ndi, PCI\VEN_11AD&DEV_0002&SUBSYS_F0041385 %PnicII.DeviceDesc%=PnicII.ndi, PCI\VEN_11AD&DEV_C115&SUBSYS_F0051385 Using pci.ids, I see this. http://pciids.sourceforge.net/pci.ids 1011 Digital Equipment Corporation 0009 DECchip 21140 [FasterNet] 1025 0310 21140 Fast Ethernet 10b8 2001 SMC9332BDT EtherPower 10/100 10b8 2002 SMC9332BVT EtherPower T4 10/100 10b8 2003 SMC9334BDT EtherPower 10/100 (1-port) 1109 2400 ANA-6944A/TX Fast Ethernet 1112 2300 RNS2300 Fast Ethernet 1112 2320 RNS2320 Fast Ethernet 1112 2340 RNS2340 Fast Ethernet 1113 1207 EN-1207-TX Fast Ethernet 1186 1100 DFE-500TX Fast Ethernet 1186 1112 DFE-570TX Fast Ethernet 1186 1140 DFE-660 Cardbus Ethernet 10/100 1186 1142 DFE-660 Cardbus Ethernet 10/100 11f6 0503 Freedomline Fast Ethernet 1282 9100 AEF-380TXD Fast Ethernet 1385 1100 FA310TX Fast Ethernet 2646 0001 KNE100TX Fast Ethernet 11ad Lite-On Communications Inc c115 LNE100TX [Linksys EtherFast 10/100] There is supposed to be a Vista x64 driver making the rounds. It pops up on file sharing sites, and gets removed via takedown notices (or more likely, bandwidth exhaustion). Since I cannot find a copy, I can't tell where it came from. I would recommend finding another card. And that won't be easy. ******* This article hints at the parentage of the chip used. http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/brahma/...ers/tulip.html "This page contains information on using Linux with the DEC 21040/21041/21140/21142/21143 "Tulip" chips, as used on the SMC PCI EtherPower and many other ethercards. This device driver also supports work-alike chips from LiteOn, ASIX, and MXIC, and relabeled PNIC chips from LinkSys and Netgear. " This means the chip design has been kicking around for a long time. DEC sold their NIC chip business to someone, but I don't remember who got it first. Maybe it was Intel ? But according to that note, there may have been other players. Some of these product lines get batted around like tennis balls. So it's possible that the Vista x64 driver making the rounds, was written by one of the "work-alike" efforts. Here's another parentage page. http://man.openbsd.org/dc.4 ******* So, let's look for a replacement. For PCI, you'll see a lot of RTL8169SC. In this "comedy gold" example, the manufacturer tries to hide the identify of the chip, by putting a heatsink on top. No, the chip doesn't get warm. You see, some companies are famous for covering the chip number with a sticker, and putting a "fake" number on the sticker. This company carries the charade to new heights, by covering the chip in aluminum. And, they charge $10 for the card. I figured out what this was, by downloading the driver from their driver page. https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...82E16833389008 I have *four* RTL8169SC cards here. The first two were bought in good faith, tested and found wanting. The second two, I thought I was getting a card with Marvell chips, so I bought a pair, only to find more RTL8169SC (not Marvell) chips on board. All four now sit in boxes in the junk room, and they won't be coming out again. Intel appears to still be shipping a chip for PCI, but read the comments in the review section carefully, about the driver issue. https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...82E16833106072 I cannot find anything fit to buy in the PCI NIC section on Newegg. I would even buy a card that used two chips, a proven working PCI Express NIC, plus a PCI Express to PCI bridge chip, but I don't see any for sale. Maybe you could get something ancient and crusty like this. https://www.amazon.com/SEDNA-Etherne...ywords=rtl8139 http://www.sednacomputer.com/product...-lan-8139.html They're still selling 8139 chips. And the driver list on the second page lists Windows 7. It's a 10/100BT card. These are not fast, by any stretch of the imagination, but they're a known quantity, and as long as you only pay $10 for them, I wouldn't consider them a ripoff. I would really have love in my heart for the 8169 10/100/1000BT, if the manufacturer would only fix it and ship a 8169a, rather than shipping crap for 10 years instead. It used to be standard practice in the chip industry, to actually fix stuff :-/ Paul |
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Netgear FA310TX-REV02 card.
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Thanks JW On Sun, 26 Mar 2017 07:55:27 -0400, Paul wrote: wrote: I have an old Netgear FA310TX-REV02 Lan Adapter PCI card. I can't find driver for it for XP or W7. I wud prefer the latter. All I get when I go to supposed download sites are downloads for driver upgrade software. Anyone steer me to a download loc for it? Maybe there is none. Thanks JW The driver on the Netgear site, the files are dated 1999. http://www.downloads.netgear.com/fil...n%204.02.zi p So right away, you're screwed. ******* The EXE inside the ZIP, is just an archive, and not protected with InstallShield or anything. I can see inside it with 7ZIP. In the INF file, it is identified as: NETGEAR FA310TX Fast Ethernet PCI Adapter The INF file includes these identifiers. The fact they're quite different, implies a config prom can be used to change the ID of the chip (which is bad news, from a practical perspective). %21140M.DeviceDesc%=21140.ndi, PCI\VEN_1011&DEV_0009&SUBSYS_11001385 %Pnic.DeviceDesc%=Pnic.ndi, PCI\VEN_11AD&DEV_0002&SUBSYS_F0041385 %PnicII.DeviceDesc%=PnicII.ndi, PCI\VEN_11AD&DEV_C115&SUBSYS_F0051385 Using pci.ids, I see this. http://pciids.sourceforge.net/pci.ids 1011 Digital Equipment Corporation 0009 DECchip 21140 [FasterNet] 1025 0310 21140 Fast Ethernet 10b8 2001 SMC9332BDT EtherPower 10/100 10b8 2002 SMC9332BVT EtherPower T4 10/100 10b8 2003 SMC9334BDT EtherPower 10/100 (1-port) 1109 2400 ANA-6944A/TX Fast Ethernet 1112 2300 RNS2300 Fast Ethernet 1112 2320 RNS2320 Fast Ethernet 1112 2340 RNS2340 Fast Ethernet 1113 1207 EN-1207-TX Fast Ethernet 1186 1100 DFE-500TX Fast Ethernet 1186 1112 DFE-570TX Fast Ethernet 1186 1140 DFE-660 Cardbus Ethernet 10/100 1186 1142 DFE-660 Cardbus Ethernet 10/100 11f6 0503 Freedomline Fast Ethernet 1282 9100 AEF-380TXD Fast Ethernet 1385 1100 FA310TX Fast Ethernet 2646 0001 KNE100TX Fast Ethernet 11ad Lite-On Communications Inc c115 LNE100TX [Linksys EtherFast 10/100] There is supposed to be a Vista x64 driver making the rounds. It pops up on file sharing sites, and gets removed via takedown notices (or more likely, bandwidth exhaustion). Since I cannot find a copy, I can't tell where it came from. I would recommend finding another card. And that won't be easy. ******* This article hints at the parentage of the chip used. http://www.phy.duke.edu/~rgb/brahma/...ers/tulip.html "This page contains information on using Linux with the DEC 21040/21041/21140/21142/21143 "Tulip" chips, as used on the SMC PCI EtherPower and many other ethercards. This device driver also supports work-alike chips from LiteOn, ASIX, and MXIC, and relabeled PNIC chips from LinkSys and Netgear. " This means the chip design has been kicking around for a long time. DEC sold their NIC chip business to someone, but I don't remember who got it first. Maybe it was Intel ? But according to that note, there may have been other players. Some of these product lines get batted around like tennis balls. So it's possible that the Vista x64 driver making the rounds, was written by one of the "work-alike" efforts. Here's another parentage page. http://man.openbsd.org/dc.4 ******* So, let's look for a replacement. For PCI, you'll see a lot of RTL8169SC. In this "comedy gold" example, the manufacturer tries to hide the identify of the chip, by putting a heatsink on top. No, the chip doesn't get warm. You see, some companies are famous for covering the chip number with a sticker, and putting a "fake" number on the sticker. This company carries the charade to new heights, by covering the chip in aluminum. And, they charge $10 for the card. I figured out what this was, by downloading the driver from their driver page. https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...82E16833389008 I have *four* RTL8169SC cards here. The first two were bought in good faith, tested and found wanting. The second two, I thought I was getting a card with Marvell chips, so I bought a pair, only to find more RTL8169SC (not Marvell) chips on board. All four now sit in boxes in the junk room, and they won't be coming out again. Intel appears to still be shipping a chip for PCI, but read the comments in the review section carefully, about the driver issue. https://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...82E16833106072 I cannot find anything fit to buy in the PCI NIC section on Newegg. I would even buy a card that used two chips, a proven working PCI Express NIC, plus a PCI Express to PCI bridge chip, but I don't see any for sale. Maybe you could get something ancient and crusty like this. https://www.amazon.com/SEDNA-Etherne...ywords=rtl8139 http://www.sednacomputer.com/product...-lan-8139.html They're still selling 8139 chips. And the driver list on the second page lists Windows 7. It's a 10/100BT card. These are not fast, by any stretch of the imagination, but they're a known quantity, and as long as you only pay $10 for them, I wouldn't consider them a ripoff. I would really have love in my heart for the 8169 10/100/1000BT, if the manufacturer would only fix it and ship a 8169a, rather than shipping crap for 10 years instead. It used to be standard practice in the chip industry, to actually fix stuff :-/ Paul |
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