Shawn:
You're not the first one I've heard say that the RealTek-based cards work fine.
But I'm having a troubling time with mine. I got a D-Link DFE-530TX+ 10/100
card for my PowerTowerPro and it works great when the traffic is mostly
incoming, but when I try to move files over it outbound to a successfully
mounted (icons showing in the Finder and everything!) AppleFileShare server it
croaks -- the copy times out, the mountpoint is unmounted, errors pop up and
worst of all, the Unix-based network in my Mac is screwed up to the point that
then I usually can't access *anything* (web, remote AppleFileShare servers,
etc.). I've seen cases where the Unix netstat utility reports that I now have
no default route and no static route to my router's address... things that were
there before I tried copying a file outbound. The files I've tried to copy are
12KB, so they are a bigger burst of outgoing traffic than the normal web
browser and DNS requests that are sent out -- but they are tiny compared to
what I can transfer if I pull the D-Link card out!
I can sometimes get my network connection working again by fiddling with the
Network Preferences (switch between the D-Link card and the built-in Ethernet,
rearrange them, etc.) but sometimes only a reboot brings me back until the next
time it gets hosed.
This sounds surprising similar to Terry's (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) statements in
another thread:
> One problem I do find though is that OSX 10.2.3 has no
> problem operating as a client, but the ethernet interface shuts
> itself down when I try to pull files from it using file sharing, but
> putting files on it doesn't seem to break it. Only a restart seems to
> fix this problem - not related to yours though.
I've got both Network ports setup in the same 192.168.123 subnet (with unique
addresses), a netmask of 255.255.255.0 and the same router address.
My system is running OS X 10.2.2. I am using RealTek's v1.13 driver for MAC OS
X 10.2.X systems since D-Link's latest (v1.10) is only good up thru 10.1.5. I
put the new card into PCI slot 1. There's a ACARD ATA/133 card in slot 2, ATI
Radeon 7000 in slot 4 and the TwinTurbo card in slot 6. I think that's all...
I do want to stress that this is a new problem that is only seen when I have
the D-Link Ethernet card in my system. I could read/write to servers both on my
local network and very remote before I added it, and just fine after removing
it. The D-Link card is revision E1 (I believe) if that matters.
Is this a problem with me (no personal attacks, please), my Network settings or
this card/driver?
Marty
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