Re: network card detected but module fails
thanks for the quick reply.
> On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 03:31:05PM -0700, sucks the bag wrote:
> |
> | 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 '+').
is there something in the above that makes you think it's a DFE-530TX+ rather than a DFE-530TX (not that i'm doubting you, the way i checked the make of the card was by opening the case and looking, and i could easily have been mistaken).
> | 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.
alas, i tried both the rtl8139 and tulip drivers and they gave the same error messages i originally posted (with rtl8139 and tulip substituted for 3c507 of course). any other ideas?
-mark
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