Re: network card detected but module fails

[dman <dsh8290@rit.edu>]

On Sun, Oct 21, 2001 at 11:00:33PM -0700, sucks the bag wrote:
| 
| 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).

No, I thought you said it was the '+' variant in your message.  I read
too fast!

| > | 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?

If all three modules fail, then I'm sorry to report that you have some
problems :-(.  All three of the D-Link variants (DE-530TX, DFE-530TX,
and DFE-530TX+) are supported.  I have personally seen a DFE-530TX+ work
with no problems.

-D