Re: D-Link DFE-530TX Probs W. 2.4.2

[Marc Moody <marc@matwreck.org>]

On Mon, 05 Mar 2001 04:42:23 Martin Würtele wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 06:08:12PM -0500, James Moody wrote:
> > PCI ID of these cards changed at some point, instead of identifying
> themselves
> > as realtek 8139, they now identify themselves as actual dlink cards, so

 
> i thought that the dlink 530 tx cards have a via rhine chip as cat
> /proc/pci gives something like 
> Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies Unknown device (rev 66)
> 
> and i use the via-rhine with kernel 2.4 as 2.2 only works with old via
> rhines.

I believe that the 530TX does use the via Rhine Chip, but the 530TX+ uses
the realtek 8139.  Strange that the plus would have such a significant
change, but I have the 530TX+, and I though I read this when I was
installing mine.

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Marc
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