On Thu, 15 Feb 2001, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Ian Tester">
>
> > It's a RealTek 8139 based card, and isn't worth half the money that D-link
> > is selling 'em for.
>
> VIA Rhine, in fact.
No, it's an RTL8139. Looking at the the box again, it's a
"DFE-530TX+". Maybe the "non-plus" is a rhine. Gee, looks like D-link is
really shopping around...
> > All I get are timeout errors with both the D-link and another
> > (cheaper) RTL8139 card. And with both 2.2.16 (or whatever Debian Potato
> > r0 comes with) and 2.4.0. Has anyone had any luck with these cards?
>
> I've had nothing but success with rtl8139-based cards. Yes, they are for
> non-critical or budget installations, but for those purposes they're fine.
> Use the 8139too module with Linux 2.2.
>From memory, I believe my family's linux server is running with an 8139
card. On top of that, it's with kernel 2.2 and the original 8139 driver,
not the newer 8139too. I wonder what I'm doing differently here...
> I *strongly* recommend downloading Donald Becker's drivers (linked from
> scyld.com), as they are generally better than their older main kernel
> distributed counterparts. (Write a script to update your kernel trees.)
I'll have to have a look at Donalds' drivers. How's he getting along with
Linus and the other kernel developers? Last I heard, they'd almost kicked
him out because they weren't happy with his "big and infequent" updates. I
thought even a couple of his drivers were reassigned new maintainers.
bye
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