Hello,

I've seen that the NETGEAR FA310 TX ethernet card has been updated on the wiki (unsupported hardware/ethernet) so digital chip on some FA310TX seems to be supported

How can i know if mine as a digital chipset ?

In the supported hardware wiki :
"FA310 - uses built in DEC 21xx4 driver (specifically "digital" chip) "

FA310 and FA310 TX same chipset ?
uses built in DEC 21xx4 driver : by default into OSX86 10.4.1 ? lauched at startup ? i've not
see any extention seems to DEC driver runnig on my system. Could you help me please about this ?


I made tests yesterday Here they are :

I have currently no high speed connection at home, so the only way to test it is to lauch a ping to localhost.
As the ping is responding, i am wondering if this card is (partially) supported by osx86 on my system.

My system :

UPDATED : i miss to say an important thing :
I need to boot with platform=X86PC to make OSX86 10.4.1 running on my system...

Mobo ASUS P4B266
Intel P4 Northwood 2,4 Ghz at 2,65 Ghz
Mushkin PC 2100 SD-RAM 2x256 Mo high speed memry
HD Maxtor 6Y080P0 ATA 80 Go
ATI radeon 7500 AGP 1024x768x32 at 60 Hz (openGL works/no QE)
coreaudio with CMI8738 mobo chipset /added CMI8738 extension driver from Dogbert (no input, but out ok)
STaudio DSP24 pci sound card not working (tried ppc native STaudio OSX driver)
HSF SOFTMODEM not recognized /not working
DVD RW PIONEER DVR 107D (Apple shipped/supported)
NETGEAR FA310 TX pci ethernet card... without driver installed / no hardware address found.

What the system profiler says about it :

Built-in Ethernet:

Type: Ethernet
Hardware: Ethernet
BSD Device Name: en0
IPv4:
Configuration Method: DHCP
IPv6:
Configuration Method: Automatic
Proxies:
FTP Proxy Enabled: No
FTP Passive Mode: Yes
Gopher Proxy Enabled: No
HTTP proxy Enabled: No
HTTPS Proxy Enabled: No
RTSP Proxy Enabled: No
SOCKS Proxy Enabled: No

what the network system panel says : (i can't make built-in Ethernet on into this panel : stay inactive)
Click to view attachment

what the network utility says (no hardware address found)
Click to view attachment

Test ping to localhost : OK
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NETWORK UTILITY : NETSTAT

Routing tables
Internet:
Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire
127 localhost UCS 0 0 lo0
localhost localhost UH 4 1656 lo0
224.0.0/4 localhost UCS 1 0 lo0
224.0.0.251 localhost UHW 1 25 lo0

Internet6:
Destination Gateway Flags Netif Expire
localhost link#1 UHL lo0
jfs-computer.local Uc lo0
jfs-computer.local link#1 UHL lo0
ff01:: localhost U lo0
ff02::%lo0 localhost UC lo0

multicast information

No IPv4 multicast routing compiled into this system.
IPv6 multicast forwarding:
0 multicast forwarding cache lookups
0 multicast forwarding cache misses
0 upcalls to mrouted
0 upcall llueue overflows
0 upcalls dropped due to full socket buffer
0 cache cleanups
0 datagrams with no route for origin
0 datagrams arrived with bad tunneling
0 datagrams could not be tunneled
0 datagrams arrived on wrong interface
0 datagrams selectively dropped
0 datagrams dropped due to llueue overflow
0 datagrams dropped for being too large

state of all current sockets connections
Active Internet connections (including servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address (state)
tcp4 0 0 localhost.ipp *.* LISTEN
tcp4 0 0 localhost.netinfo-loca localhost.1019 ESTABLISHED
tcp4 0 0 localhost.1019 localhost.netinfo-loca ESTABLISHED
tcp4 0 0 localhost.netinfo-loca localhost.1021 ESTABLISHED
tcp4 0 0 localhost.1021 localhost.netinfo-loca ESTABLISHED
tcp4 0 0 localhost.netinfo-loca *.* LISTEN
udp4 0 0 *.ipp *.*
udp4 0 0 *.mdns *.*
udp6 0 0 *.5353 *.*
udp4 0 0 *.mdns *.*
udp4 0 0 *.* *.*
udp4 0 0 localhost.netinfo-loca *.*

Active LOCAL (UNIX) domain sockets
Address Type Recv-Q Send-Q Inode Conn Refs Nextref Addr
c17b3220 stream 0 0 c1ff2528 0 0 0 /private/var/run/cupsd
c17b3660 stream 0 0 0 c17b3cc0 0 0 /var/run/mDNSResponder
c17b3cc0 stream 0 0 0 c17b3660 0 0
c17b3770 stream 0 0 c1a04a50 0 0 0 /var/run/pppconfd
c17b3990 stream 0 0 c1991210 0 0 0 /var/run/mDNSResponder
c17b3880 stream 0 0 c19918c4 0 0 0 /var/run/asl_input
c17b3d48 stream 0 0 c1987084 0 0 0 /var/run/portmap.socket
c17b3ee0 stream 0 0 0 0 0 0
c17b3f68 stream 0 0 c17ac4a4 0 0 0 /var/launchd/0/sock
c17b32a8 dgram 0 0 0 c17b37f8 0 c17b33b8
c17b33b8 dgram 0 0 0 c17b37f8 0 c17b3440
c17b3440 dgram 0 0 0 c17b37f8 0 c17b34c8
c17b34c8 dgram 0 0 0 c17b37f8 0 c17b36e8
c17b3550 dgram 0 0 0 c17b35d8 c17b35d8 0
c17b35d8 dgram 0 0 0 c17b3550 c17b3550 0
c17b36e8 dgram 0 0 0 c17b37f8 0 c17b3908
c17b3908 dgram 0 0 0 c17b37f8 0 c17b3c38
c17b3c38 dgram 0 0 0 c17b37f8 0 c17b3b28
c17b3b28 dgram 0 0 0 c17b37f8 0 c17b3bb0
c17b3bb0 dgram 0 0 0 c17b37f8 0 0
c17b3a18 dgram 0 0 0 c17b3aa0 c17b3aa0 0
c17b3aa0 dgram 0 0 0 c17b3a18 c17b3a18 0
c17b37f8 dgram 0 0 c19917bc 0 c17b32a8 0 /var/run/syslog
c17b3dd0 dgram 0 0 0 c17b3e58 c17b3e58 0
c17b3e58 dgram 0 0 0 c17b3dd0 c17b3dd0 0




What do you think about ?

Thanks a lot
ZAZMAN

I added the comments about using the "digital chipset"

I have a few of the FA310tx network cards. The ones with the "d.i.g.i.t.a.l" chipsets are recognized as "built in ethernet." The ones that don't have "digital" are not.

Looks like you don't have one.

It's easy to tell. Take out the card, look at the biggest chip about 4cm x 4cm & if it says "digital" you're good.

thanks for your post.

you say :

"The ones with the "d.i.g.i.t.a.l" chipsets are recognized as "built in ethernet." The ones that don't have "digital" are not.

Looks like you don't have one."

Hows looks like mine ?
Where should it be recognized as built-in internet ?

My system profiler says at network/built-in internet/ :

Type: Ethernet
Hardware: Ethernet
BSD Device Name: en0
IPv4:
Configuration Method: DHCP
IPv6:
Configuration Method: Automatic
Proxies:
FTP Proxy Enabled: No
FTP Passive Mode: Yes
Gopher Proxy Enabled: No
HTTP proxy Enabled: No
HTTPS Proxy Enabled: No
RTSP Proxy Enabled: No
SOCKS Proxy Enabled: No

I don't anderstand how OSX can communicate with the card (ping responding)
if it's not a digital one and if it is not recognized.

And how my system panel/network shows built-in ethernet ?


UPDATED : i miss to say an important thing :

I need to boot with platform=X86PC to make OSX86 10.4.1 running on my system...
The fact that it's not in ACPI mode could explain why this card would be only partially recognized ?

Anyway, i will take off the card this evening to see what kind it is...

I've got an FA310TX as well - it's a REV-02.

It doesn't have the "digital"-marking on the largest chip, and my built-in ethernet is greyed out just as zasman's. So I guess i'm out of luck.

However, with the FA310TX plugged in, the system DOES detect something it refers to as "builtin serial", although my ABIT KV8 Pro doesn't have a built-in modem. What's up with that?

Another important thing :

I removed the FA310TX pci card and made a ping into network utility and console :

the ping is responding too, without any network hardware !!!

so i think i'm gonna buy another ethernet card : Realtek 8139 ? what do you think about ?

works in 10.4.3 (8F1099 and 8F1111) ?

Thanks