[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> I could be wrong:  manufacturers sometimes change chips in the middle of
> production, but none of the 530TX's I've seen have been VIA chips.  Some
> use Realtek chips (the 530TX+) and some use Digital Tulip chips (211x0,
> usually 21140).  Both of these use different modules, and they're both
> different from the via-rhine.  I've never seen a standalone NIC use the
> via-rhine:  only VIA chipsets with onboard NIC's.  That doesn't mean they
> don't exist, but they're most likely pretty uncommon.

Well, Tim, the DFE-530TX is very common here in Scandinavia and they do
use the via-rhine module:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dmesg
Linux version 2.4.20 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.2.2) #2 Mon Mar 17
22:02:15 PST 2003
agpgart: Detected Intel 440LX chipset
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe0000000
via-rhine.c:v1.10-LK1.1.14  May-3-2002  Written by Donald Becker
  http://www.scyld.com/network/via-rhine.html
PCI: Found IRQ 4 for device 00:0f.0
eth0: VIA VT6102 Rhine-II at 0x7800, 00:05:5d:a1:d9:10, IRQ 4.

I left the agpgart bit just to show that it's not a VIA board, but the
machine I'm writing from is.  :)

http://www.scyld.com/network/ethercard.html

Regards,
-- 
Patrick Benson
Stockholm, Sweden


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