On Sat, 31 Oct 1998, Wolfgang Walter wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 30, 1998 at 04:50:50PM -0500, Donald Becker wrote:
> > On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Neil Moore-Smith wrote:
> >
> > > Is there a driver for the D-Link DE530CT+ card in Linux? It's a 10Mbs PCI
> > It's a 10/100 card based on the VIA Rhine-II chip.
> > ftp://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/via-rhine.c
>
> DE530CT+ is a 10mbit based on DEC DC21041 chipset. Its working fine with
> tulip-driver or DE4X5-driver. I have myself one.
>
> The 10/100 card based on the VIA Rhine-II is the D-Link DFE530TX
Thanks for the correction, 'DFE' vs. 'DE'.
> > Boring and reliable -- even D-Link couldn't screw up the design.
>
> Does it usually? I have no bad experiences with DE530CT+ and DFE500TX, both
> dec chipsets. Nor with their switches. I never used other cards from d-link.
There were several versions of the D-Link 21140 board that had horrible
transceiver wiring bugs. For instance the C3 revision was a 10/100 board
that powered up at 10mbps only. (A 10/100 board should power up
NWay-advertising all of it capabilities.)
Donald Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
USRA-CESDIS, Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences.
Code 930.5, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. 20771
301-286-0882 http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/people/becker/whoiam.html
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