Re: network card detected but module fails
On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 03:31:05PM -0700, sucks the bag wrote:
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| i'm trying to install debian onto a friend's amd-k7 from the potato
| cdroms. his network card says it's a "d-link dfe-530tx", and sure
| enough, running "lspci -v" gives:
|
| [snip non-relevant devices]
|
| 00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: VIA technologies, Inc. : Unknown device 3065 (rev 43)
| Subsystem: D-Link System Inc: Unknown device 1400
| Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 12
| I/O ports at d400
| Memory at efffff00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
| Expansion ROM at effe0000 [disabled]
| Capabilities: [40] Power Management verion 2
|
| according to a web site i found
| (http://lhd.datapower.com/db/dispproduct.php3?DISP?296) both the
That page discusses the DFE-530TX (no '+').
| via-rhine and 3c507 modules should work. when i got to the
| "Configure Device Driver Modules" stage of the installation,
| however, they both gave me this:
The card you have is an rtl8139. (if rtl8139 fails, try tulip)
D-Link made 3 cards with almost identical names but entirely different
chipsets.
I just went to DLink's site and downloaded the drivers. It seems to
indicate that it is an rtl8139. (They give you a .exe file that
'unzip' can expand)
HTH,
-D
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