On Thursday 29 March 2001 19:16, you wrote:
> Hi
> I have exactly the same card and it is working great. I have LM7.2. I
> didn't do anything special. The install recognised the card and installed
> the right module (via-rhine). ----- Original Message -----
> From: paul pianta
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 10:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Sympatico and the D-Link 530-TX problems
>
Don't count on fixes for some of those cards. The manufacturers change
chipsets without changing model numbers (example D-Link DSB 630 USB Ethernat
adapter: Some have Pegasus Chipsets and are easy to fix and mine had a
Kawasaki Chipset and was impossible for our chief kernel hacker to get to
work with the tools available (turns out the Kawasaki is half-duplex only))
Both the implementations have the same model number.
And don't be disappointed with the way things are. Microsoft never wrote a
driver itself and made manufacturers pay them for the little sticker that
certified it for windows. We do our best in the free software community to
make free software drivers, but several things can intervene:
1. No one is interested in the particular hardware (remember most of these
drivers are written by volunteers, and they put their time where they want to)
2. The manufacturer is uncooperative. (this sometimes leads to drivers
anyway, especially if the manufacturer is adamant enough about protecting his
bogus Intellectual Property to make folks obstinate about reverse engineering
him from spite.)
3. Lots of alternatives exist. (Network cards exist in profusion, and there
are many who are willing to write drivers to run on linux. Netgear recently
made their FA311 and FA312 drivers available under the GNU/GPL. So next time
I need a network card, guess what I am likely to buy?)
4. A proprietary driver exists. Example: NVidia chipset cards like TNT2 and
Geforce have a proprietary driver therefore there is no great interest in
doing a free one. Of course, you will have to look on the commercial CDs in
a distribution to find it, and you get little or no support from the distro
maker, because he has no clue what the driver is doing.
So it is not a bug when a particular distribution has no driver for a
specific device, nor should it be particularly surprising when another device
with the same name and model number works on the same distro.
Civileme
>
> in case anyone was wondering i have abandoned all hope with this card and
> have installed another. i'm really dissappointed but maybe LM8.0 will have
> a fix for it!!! Thanx all
> bye
> paul
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