NIC not working

[linearpath]

My setup - four PCs hooked to hub. All could see each other under winders. I loaded Linux onto one of them (SuSE 6.4).
It has a Netgear NIC in it which supposedly maps to the 'Tulip' type (although the card's model number was not a perfect match to the supported card list.) lspci reports "Ethernet controller: National SemiConductor Corporation: Unknown device 0020" . The network setup fails during boot. ifconfig reports that it cannot find the device.
I know little about Unix and less about Linux. Please help!

[Stuka]

It might be worth doing some looking to make sure that the 'tulip' driver the card uses is the same 'tulip' that shipped w/your distro of Linux. I had similar problems w/a CNET PRO 120 not too long ago. You might try searching on Google under the card name - that's where I found my answer.

[Muzzafarath]

Is this the FA-311? Its chip (or something like that) is made by National Semiconductor, which might be why lspci lists Nat. Semi ;) Anyway, get the "natsemi" driver from here (http://www.scyld.com/network/ethercard.html).

[linearpath]

Thanks for the input. What I wound up doing is swapping out the Netgear FA311 with an Intel p100 NIC from another PC on the network (running windows.) Now both are happy (as am I.) =^)
Once again, thanks!