On Sun, Jul 15, 2001 at 12:04:24AM +0100, Paul Tansom wrote: | On Sat, 14 Jul 2001, Rick Commo wrote: | > >>The module is the via-rhine and it's been included in | > >>kernel since 2.2 IIRC. | > | > Watch out here. I believe that the via-rhine driver works with an earlier | > of version of this card. The correct driver for the DF350-TX+ is rtl8139.o. | > The card uses the Realtek chip and in fact on my Win2K machine reported | > itself as the Realtek card. The rtl8139 driver was in the r2.2 release CDs | > that I bought some time ago. I have a few of them going here with no | > problem. | | Correct, the DFE530TX uses the via-rhine driver, but the DFE530TX+ uses the | rtl8139 driver. That plus makes all the difference, and the naming being so | close, but the cards/chipsets being so different causes a lot of confusion!
Yeah. Not to mention the DE-530TX -- IIRC it is a tulip card. | for various reasons and break compatibility (notable the Linksys Etherfast | (tulip) and Netgear FA311 (nat-semi), which I have known to have issues. I have a LinkSys LNE100TX (rev 2, its a couple years old) that I have never had any trouble with. I use the tulip driver (since version 0.89 I think, 2.0.36 kernel). I has a Lite-On tulip clone. -D