[ale] DFE-530TX+ Rev D - Beware!

Joseph A. Knapka jknapka at earthlink.net
Sat Jul 28 14:48:41 EDT 2001


"Joseph A. Knapka" wrote:
> 
> Regarding the D-Link NICs mentioned in the subject, which are
> being sold as a loss-leader by Circuit City for literal pennies:
> 
> - The box claims Linux support.
> - There's a version of Donald Becker's rtl8139 driver on the
>   driver diskette.
> - That driver *will not* compile under 2.4-series kernels.
> - The rtl8139 driver (drivers/net/8139too.c) included in
>   the 2.4.5 kernel *will not* detect this card.

Oopsie. The 8139too driver *does* detect the card. I was
apparently suffering from temporary brain death while
looking at the dmesg output. The card works fine on
2.4.5. Mae culpa.
 
-- Joe Knapka
"You know how many remote castles there are along the gorges? You
 can't MOVE for remote castles!" -- Lu Tze re. Uberwald
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