Netgear FA311 network card $4.97, no rebate

[Ark]

Did not see this posted:

BestBuy has unadvertized Netgear FA311 network card $4.97, no rebate, no pricematch.
Price was marked on the shelf at local BB.
They set this price to follow CompUSA $9.97-5MIR for this card.

Really good card for $5

 

[aphex]

Very cool, the linksys one is the same price at some stores as well... Ill check tomm

 

[Ark]

Linksys was $5 last week just in some stores, it was $25 in our BB

 

[Tung]

Hot!!

DO NOT get this if you have the ECS K7S5A.

 

[CLoUdO12]

Originally posted by: Tung
Hot!!

DO NOT get this if you have the ECS K7S5A.

amen to taht

do NOT get this card if you have an ECS board.

your computer will not boot, the secondary IDE will not work

ARGH! the first time ever a network card caused these kinda of problems

 

[Ark]

Is the problem with ANY ECS boards or just K7S5A?

I was going to use it with older ECS Celeron board.
Now I may just switch NICs with another PC.

 

[Kaieye]

Is this the same network card that gives the FIC AD-11 mb fits???

 

[virtuamike]

This board has A LOT of compatibility fits. The FA310 works great but stay away from the FA311.

 

[wjsulliv]

Netgear messed this card up royally.

I had one for a long time and then switched to a D-Link 530TX+, which is frequently on sale at Best Buy and CompUSA for cheap. PLus the D-Link card works with Norton Ghost 2002 with a few modifications to the bootable ghost floppy, i.e. there are dos drivers for the 530TX+.

Many of the FA311's have ID's that say they are FA312 cards. So when you try and install the card in anything but XP, the install program can't find the proper driver and must be forced to load the FA311 driver from the disk, which is claims would be a bad idea. In XP the card is recognized and loaded as a FA312.

Netgear has a untility on their website that corrects this. After I ran the utility XP rerecognized my card as a FA311.

 

[Ark]

Here is the link to netgear site about this problem.
Looks like it was fixed while ago and they also have a eeprom update for older cards.

 

[Ark]

The version of FA3111 I got is FA35Cxxx and not listed as "possibly faulty" at netgear site.

 

[unclebud]

i think it's hot! went to bb twice today and forgot though --was meditating on this g2mx200 for $29.60 ar (if i got it)
n didn't buy it either--was too geeked from spiderman--great way to use that free pass i had been saving up for a year and a half from donating blood! woooo!!! i hate it when i get overconfident

 

[milon]

I got the FA311 from Compusa. The card networks fine in Windows 98SE. But, it will not let me use Dial-Up Networking to dial my ISP. Has anyone else had this problem with this NIC or another card?

 

[optimistic]

I can confirm this deal at BB. Industry, CA.

 

[pkypkypky]

NICs are so cheap now, so i stay away from the fa311 and maybe netgear totally now since i have so many spare NICs in storage. AMD761 has probs with it, yes.

 

[boi]

I have this NIC. It can handle 40+MHz pci bus speed. Very nice card =)

 

[stevejst]

I used Linksys LNE 100TX, NC100U (a problematic one), D-Link 530TX and this one. I too switched from FA311 to D-Link. I think D-Link 530TX is the best of these cards. There is some problem with misnaming FA311, wrong drivers etc. If you have choice of cheap cards go for Linksys LNE 100TX or D-Link 530TX, they are no problem cards.