Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+
On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 12:04:24AM +0100, Paul Tansom wrote:
| On Sat, 14 Jul 2001, Rick Commo wrote:
| > >>The module is the via-rhine and it's been included in
| > >>kernel since 2.2 IIRC.
| >
| > Watch out here. I believe that the via-rhine driver works with an earlier
| > of version of this card. The correct driver for the DF350-TX+ is rtl8139.o.
| > The card uses the Realtek chip and in fact on my Win2K machine reported
| > itself as the Realtek card. The rtl8139 driver was in the r2.2 release CDs
| > that I bought some time ago. I have a few of them going here with no
| > problem.
|
| Correct, the DFE530TX uses the via-rhine driver, but the DFE530TX+ uses the
| rtl8139 driver. That plus makes all the difference, and the naming being so
| close, but the cards/chipsets being so different causes a lot of confusion!
Yeah. Not to mention the DE-530TX -- IIRC it is a tulip card.
| for various reasons and break compatibility (notable the Linksys Etherfast
| (tulip) and Netgear FA311 (nat-semi), which I have known to have issues.
I have a LinkSys LNE100TX (rev 2, its a couple years old) that I have
never had any trouble with. I use the tulip driver (since version
0.89 I think, 2.0.36 kernel). I has a Lite-On tulip clone.
-D
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