This one time, at band camp, Derrick 'dman' Hudson said:
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 02:50:44PM -0700, Mother Lode Internet Tech Support wrote:
> | I recently purchased 4 IBM ThinkPad 600's and now I need to find and
> | purchase 4 nic's.
>
> Any of the common LinkSys, Netgear, or D-Link PCI cards are fine.
> Most of them are either 'tulip' or 'rtl8139' (or 'natsemi').
>
> | We are installing Debian 2.2 r6
>
> Grep through the source of a 2.2.19 or 2.2.20 kernel source tree.
>
> | and wanted to make sure
> | that the D-Link DFE-650TX using chipset DL10022 will work in Debian before
> | purchasing the cards. I have looked at the newsgroups and find no real cute
> | and dry answer so I thought I would ask the developer.
>
> This is a user list, not developer (though some people here are
> software developers of one sort or another).
>
> | Any assistance would be appreciated.
>
> (/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/drivers/net)
> dman@dman [524]$ grep -r '\<650\>' *
> pcmcia/pcnet_cs.c: This driver supports the D-Link DE-650 and Linksys EthernetCard
> pcmcia/pcnet_cs.c: { /* D-Link DE-650 */ 0x0040, 0x00, 0x80, 0xc8, 0 },
> wireless/orinoco.c: * o Tested with a D-Link DWL 650 card, fill in firmware support
>
> At least some of the *650* cards are supported in kernel 2.4.18.
> I don't suppose the DFE-650TX is supported though. All of the 530
> (DE-530TX, DFE-530TX, and DFE-530TX+) are well supported, though each
> one uses a different driver.
>
> Are you looking for a PCMCIA NIC? If so, I know for a fact that the
> D-Link DFE-690TXD works well (8132too, requires kernel 2.4).
The link for all supported cards is
http://pcmcia-cs.sourceforge.net/ftp/SUPPORTED.CARDS -
the short answer is, I don't see it, but I do see some closely related
cards.
Good luck and HTH,
Steve
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