Re: D-Link DFE-530TX Probs W. 2.4.2
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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> I just compiled a 2.4.2 kernel. The compile went fine. Ran lilo,
> rebooted...everything looking good.
>
> The big problem is that my NIC (a D-Link DFE-530TX) doesn't work. I
> would like to elaborate on "doesn't work", but I'm afraid I can't.
>
> I did cat /proc/pci and the NIC was listed there. I noticed that it
> was sharing IRQ 10 with my USB controller, but I was told by someone
> in #debian on IRC that it wouldn't be an issue because I have USB
> disabled in my kernel.
On PCI devices sharing interrupts is generally not an issue, although it
can hurt performance. Some OSs (Windows) don't like it.
tux.creighton.edu has the NIC and the USB controller sharing IRQ 19 (it's
a SMP system - on PCs they tend to go up to 24 IRQs rather than only 16)
and he doesn't even notice.
My workstation at home has PCI sound and USB on IRQ 12, and my G400 &
ethernet on IRQ 11 (umm that must be why remote X11 goes slow...)...
> The driver that I have compiled into my kernel is via-rhine. I am
> sure this is the right driver. This NIC has been used under win 95,
> 98 redhat 6.1 and debian. I have tried a couple times to get this NIC
> to work with kernels I have built, but it never does.
It would help if you could give us any kernel messages you get.
More specifically, *how* do you know it doesn't work?
> Another thing that might be important is that this is a revision A
> board. I've heard that rev B boards had some issues.
Wouldn't know - don't have any via-rhine cards.
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