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rs8001 · 05-19-2003, 07:08 PM

After finally getting a cable modem I needed a ethernet card. Went out and picked up a $10 Netgear card. I should have purchased the $10 Linksys card on the shelf right next to it. Took it home installed it and the fucker wouldn't work. I was a complete novice with ethernet at the time and it took me hours to methodically go through everything I could dream of. Finally, I found hidden somewhere deep within their website that some of the normal cards had been shipped with the wake on LAN card firmware. Download a simple patch and it was fixed in no time. The problem: this had been a known issue for well over a year at that time. Why did I have to dig so deep for the solution? Wasted a good couple hours on that. First and last time I ever buy anything from Netgear.

05-19-2003, 07:08 PM	#60 (permalink)
rs8001 Crazy Location: Indiana	After finally getting a cable modem I needed a ethernet card. Went out and picked up a $10 Netgear card. I should have purchased the $10 Linksys card on the shelf right next to it. Took it home installed it and the fucker wouldn't work. I was a complete novice with ethernet at the time and it took me hours to methodically go through everything I could dream of. Finally, I found hidden somewhere deep within their website that some of the normal cards had been shipped with the wake on LAN card firmware. Download a simple patch and it was fixed in no time. The problem: this had been a known issue for well over a year at that time. Why did I have to dig so deep for the solution? Wasted a good couple hours on that. First and last time I ever buy anything from Netgear.