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Summary: bummer
Review: Installing an ethernet card should be simple, right? Put the card in the slot, install the driver - bingo.Not if the company has programmed it with an incorrect PCI ID. It will be unusable. "A small percentage of the FA311 with serial numbers starting with the characters below is affected. FA35A09, FA35A0A, FA35A0B, FA35A0C, FA35A11, FA35A12, FA35B11, FA35B12, FA35B13, FA35B14." Lucky purchasers of that small percentage may experience frustration, rage, and a tendency to avoid Netgear products in the future. Eventually (using a borrowed laptop and a dial-up internet provider since we couldn't use our DSL without a functioning ethernet card) we were able to find a fix on Netgear's website. Ah, so they knowingly sent us a defective product, it's not like it was a one-time fluke or anything, there's a bunch of people just like us, part of an unlucky "small percentage." Thanks, Netgear! Produts that work are so boring. Thanks for mixing it up with some spicy defective ones that don't.
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Summary: warning!
Review: This card will cause a major problem if you have a Athlon DDR motherboard with the amd761 chipset. You will not be able to reboot! The 310tx does not have this problem. The 311 has an updated controller, called a "soft" controller, that uses cpu power, much like a "win"modem vs. older, controller-based modems. In general, avoid these...
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Summary: for Linux use natsemi driver
Review: It's [inexpensive] and it works great! I had no problem making it work under Red Hat 7.1. I have two of these connected to a Linksys switch. They both talk to the switch at 100/full. Median ping time 0.373 msec.
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Summary: Never had a problem yet with any Netgear product
Review: I believe Netgear is a great company, that is gonna take the world over, with the internet related hardware that is. I had 3 3Com NICs go out on me in a 3 month period. I would not trust another 3Com product ever. I believe 3Com is way over rated. This Netgear NIC was super easy to configure, whether it was Windows 95/98/ME or Windows NT 4.0 or 2000, or even Linux. I own 4 of these NIC cards, one in every computer I have. Highly recommended as they are very affordable.
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Summary: Best Networking Card Ever
Review: Gee, this networking LAN card is so easy to install in the computer internatly and also it is easy to install the program that comes with it. It's so good that i bought another for my other computer.
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Summary: Worked with Linux
Review: Good product overall. I liked it. It gave me no trouble at all. I wanted to setup a small network at my house with my Cable Modem, and this was the answer. Worked great, and it was cheap.
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Summary: Watch the registry!
Review: I'm semi-computer illiterate, but installing the card was a breeze, and it seems to work fine ... but! When I installed the driver, being careful to follow all the instructions, I found it had corrupted files that were referred to in the registry. As it happened I didn't need the files, but now whenever I boot up I get the infamouse blue screen and will have to get the registry fixed.
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Summary: Does not work wtih everything!
Review: This card works perfectly in my wifes PCChips el cheapo super socket-7 Mboard with the SIS chipset, however, it will not work at all in my Biostar M5ALA motherboard with the ALi chipset. I have had a Realtek 10Mb/s PCI and an ATI ISA 10MB/s card working in this computer but this one will not work. I even have a netgea router/switch and it will not link with that or directly to the cable modem. I have called thier techsupport and they were puzzled. I have changed everything in the BIOS and still no link. The LEDs should light up on the card as soon as I power up the computer (indicating linking with the router) but these don't. The only way I could get it to link was to reboot in to DOS mode and run their diagnostic utility. The first time it would run it would fail the internal controller loopback test (the second test) and then on the third test it would link up at 100Mb/s and the subsequent tests would all pass (even the one that previously failed). Then I reboot and no link. Also, if I remove the BIOS chip from the mother board (of course the computer does nothing but supply power to the board) then it will actually link up with the router. Also, the drivers are all installed and according to windows working perfectly. I have uninstalled-reinstalled several times. I think there just must be some kind of conflict with the ALi chipset and this card. I think it is an ok card for most but I would only buy an NIC from a place where I could take it back. I think Netgear is better than Linksys but I am going to try a Linksys card and then after that a 3Com. If you have an M5ALA motherboard don't buy this card, I would even think about it if I had any other board with the ALi 1541 chipset.
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Summary: WARNING
Review: Some of these cards were shipped with the wrong EEPROM resulting in the drivers not being recognized. I learned of this from Netgear's technical support after I spent a couple of hours trying to get it to work. You have to go to Netgear's web site and download S/W to correct the problem. If you are not comfortable with this, avoid this card. I use this card to connect my PC to a DSL modem. My DSL connection is slow. I don't know if this card is the reason by it is suspect.
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Summary: Easy as 1 2 3
Review: I have installed many cards for friends and clients but never like this. I installed the FA311 in my HP Pavilion, "WIN 98-se" and was up and running in under 5 minutes! I did however have a problem in my WIN 95-b machine. I could not get the card to install properly and it drove me crazy, "no fault of the card or software". Finally I moved the card to the first slot and "Poof", like magic it worked perfectly. A Great value and wonderful performance!
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