Problem solved! (Was: Re: [SLUG] Driver for D-Link NIC)

2000-10-10 Thread Peter Hardy
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 12:58:05PM +1100, Adrian van den Dries wrote: > Wrote John: > > > > The 100M versions of the card need the newer driver which only > > ships with 2.4. It may ship with some distributions if the distro has > > specifically compiled the right version in. > > > > Perhap

Re: [SLUG] Driver for D-Link NIC

2000-10-09 Thread Peter Hardy
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 10:53:11AM +1100, Adrian van den Dries wrote: > I've never had any problem with the card, using the via-rhine module shipped > in the standard kernel. I've never had to compile the module separately, > even with early 2.2 kernels. I just have "alias eth0 via-rhine" in my >

Re: [SLUG] Driver for D-Link NIC

2000-10-09 Thread Adrian van den Dries
Wrote John: > > The 100M versions of the card need the newer driver which only > ships with 2.4. It may ship with some distributions if the distro has > specifically compiled the right version in. > Perhaps that explains the 'poor' performance of that card. It's a 10/100 but I guess it's

Re: [SLUG] Driver for D-Link NIC

2000-10-09 Thread John Ferlito
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 10:53:11AM +1100, Adrian van den Dries wrote: > I've never had any problem with the card, using the via-rhine module shipped > in the standard kernel. I've never had to compile the module separately, > even with early 2.2 kernels. I just have "alias eth0 via-rhine" in my >

Re: [SLUG] Driver for D-Link NIC

2000-10-09 Thread Adrian van den Dries
I've never had any problem with the card, using the via-rhine module shipped in the standard kernel. I've never had to compile the module separately, even with early 2.2 kernels. I just have "alias eth0 via-rhine" in my modules.conf. HTH. Wrote Peter: > > This is where my meagre knowledge of C

Re: [SLUG] Driver for D-Link NIC

2000-10-09 Thread John Ferlito
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 07:18:43AM +1100, Peter Hardy wrote: > I have a D-Link DFE-530TX NIC, which is supported by the newer versions of > the via-rhine driver. The driver included with the 2.2.17 kernel does not > recognise the card. Right now I'm running 2.4.0-pre9, but would prefer 2.2, > at

[SLUG] Driver for D-Link NIC

2000-10-09 Thread Peter Hardy
I have a D-Link DFE-530TX NIC, which is supported by the newer versions of the via-rhine driver. The driver included with the 2.2.17 kernel does not recognise the card. Right now I'm running 2.4.0-pre9, but would prefer 2.2, at least until 2.4 becomes stable. Looking at the webpage, I need vers