Mother Lode wrote: > You say the cards with (+) will not work yet you state > > Bob wrote: > >>The D-Link DFE-650TX+ does not work? Or the DFE-530TX+ does not work? > >> I personally have the DFE-530TX+ and it works fine with Linux. > > Please clarify! The card you us is also the card that wont work. What do > you mean? Since I am being quoted I will jump back in. I was asking a question. There was no statement about the 650 there. I don't know anything about the DFE-650TX. I did make a statement about the 530. The DFE-530TX+ works for me. I have exactly one and I am using it now. A friend has several and he has not reported anything bad about them. He likes them. However, in an earlier note Paul wrote: > I have some DFE=530TX+ that work, and some newer ones that do > not. At least with my 2.4.18 kernel. Look like it might have > been possible with 2.2.x kernel. I thought about trying to hack > the driver, but just threw them in the spare parts box instead. It is not uncommon for vendors to modify version numbers of the hardware. Different versions of the same card might have the same name but different version numbers as reported by the probe of the pci slot. Unless and until the driver is modified to recognize the new version number it may not be able to recognize the card. It looks like D-Link has done this. (I know that Linksys does that too.) That can give trouble and has cost me time to update the driver in the past and struggles to get the network driver functional. Paul reported that different manufactured dates of cards worked differently for him. I suspect that internel version numbers changed. Usually you can modify the driver to match the new version number, recompile the driver, and keep going. But that means you have to know a little bit about C programming in order to modify the driver and make it work. I can't remember who asked the original question about the DFE-650TX (you?) but so far no one has said anything about it specifically. It does not sound good from the loudness of the silence. I would look for a different card and avoid blazing the trail yourself. Bob
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