Okay fellows, before I start a new thread therefore I announce that I have
learned my lesson and wont top-post again. Sorry for the bother.

I finally got myself a new nic, didn't installed it yet though. It is:
D-Link DFE-530TX

Anyone got experiences of this? Any recommendations for installation
procedure?
I hope its better than my poor RTL baby.
Mr.Jason
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The kernel reports following:

kernel: VIA VT6105 Rhine-III at address 1, status 0x786d advertising 05e1
Link 45e1
kernel: Setting full-duplex based on MII #1 link partner capability of 45e1.

How does this sound like? I wonder if full-duplex is good since some guys
have had problems with it. I didnt install the drivers from the CD since I
heard they are bad, but went with the ones my 2.4 Linux offered

I had one connection breakout but it was fixed when I restarted eth0. So far
it has been running OK.

"Mr.Jason" <jaakkochanREMOVETHIS@surfeu.fi> wrote in message
news:429b2356$0$7610$f4da826c@news.24online.fi...
> Okay fellows, before I start a new thread therefore I announce that I have
> learned my lesson and wont top-post again. Sorry for the bother.
>
> I finally got myself a new nic, didn't installed it yet though. It is:
> D-Link DFE-530TX
>
> Anyone got experiences of this? Any recommendations for installation
> procedure?
> I hope its better than my poor RTL baby.
> Mr.Jason
> -----
> Check out the New Album
> http://cutout.ath.cx
> Listen my music at
> http://www.rocketradio.com/mrjason
> Get my previous CD East End
> http://www.cdbaby.com/mrjason
>

Mr.Jason wrote:

> Okay fellows, before I start a new thread therefore I announce that I have
> learned my lesson and wont top-post again. Sorry for the bother.
>
> I finally got myself a new nic, didn't installed it yet though. It is:
> D-Link DFE-530TX
>
> Anyone got experiences of this? Any recommendations for installation
> procedure?
> I hope its better than my poor RTL baby.
> Mr.Jason
> -----
I don't have any experience with it but you have here a small review:
http://www.duxcw.com/digest/Reviews/...k/dfe530tx.htm

and some user comments here:
http://www.sysopt.com/userreviews/ne...DFE-530TX.html

and the manufacturer product page:
http://www.dlink.com/products/?sec=2&pid=122

Mr.Jason wrote:
> Okay fellows, before I start a new thread therefore I announce that I have
> learned my lesson and wont top-post again. Sorry for the bother.
>
> I finally got myself a new nic, didn't installed it yet though. It is:
> D-Link DFE-530TX
>
> Anyone got experiences of this? Any recommendations for installation
> procedure?

on my old slack 8, it works well with the ne2000 driver.

--
sl

* Jason <Mr.Jason> writes:

> The kernel reports following:
> kernel: VIA VT6105 Rhine-III at address 1, status 0x786d advertising 05e1
> Link 45e1
> kernel: Setting full-duplex based on MII #1 link partner capability of 45e1.

> How does this sound like? I wonder if full-duplex is good since some guys
> have had problems with it. I didnt install the drivers from the CD since I
> heard they are bad, but went with the ones my 2.4 Linux offered

> I had one connection breakout but it was fixed when I restarted eth0. So far
> it has been running OK.

> "Mr.Jason" <jaakkochanREMOVETHIS@surfeu.fi> wrote in message
> news:429b2356$0$7610$f4da826c@news.24online.fi...
>> Okay fellows, before I start a new thread therefore I announce that I have
>> learned my lesson and wont top-post again. Sorry for the bother.

LMFAO!!! I guess some lessons take a little longer to learn huh?

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On Mon, 30 May 2005 17:29:53 +0300, Mr.Jason wrote:

> Okay fellows, before I start a new thread therefore I announce that I have
> learned my lesson and wont top-post again. Sorry for the bother.
>
> I finally got myself a new nic, didn't installed it yet though. It is:
> D-Link DFE-530TX
>
> Anyone got experiences of this? Any recommendations for installation
> procedure?
> I hope its better than my poor RTL baby.
>
<snip>
I have had no problems when using the DLINK card. The card
uses the 8139too module.

Here is the relevent info from lspci:
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc RTL8139 Ethernet (rev 10)

And from dmesg:
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xe09c3000, 00:50:xx:xx:xx:xx, IRQ 11
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'

> I have had no problems when using the DLINK card. The card
> uses the 8139too module.
>
> Here is the relevent info from lspci:
> 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc RTL8139 Ethernet (rev 10)
>
> And from dmesg:
> eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xe09c3000, 00:50:xx:xx:xx:xx, IRQ 11
> eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'

Thank you! Do you think that card is good enough for server? I mean
stability issue, it wont go down all of a sudden? Or if theres lots of
traffic or even DOS attack..
Mr.Jason
http://music.msn.com/album/?album=41839578

Le Mon, 30 May 2005 22:21:21 -0600, Douglas Mayne a écrit*:

> On Mon, 30 May 2005 17:29:53 +0300, Mr.Jason wrote:
>
>> Okay fellows, before I start a new thread therefore I announce that I have
>> learned my lesson and wont top-post again. Sorry for the bother.
>>
>> I finally got myself a new nic, didn't installed it yet though. It is:
>> D-Link DFE-530TX
>>
>> Anyone got experiences of this? Any recommendations for installation
>> procedure?
>> I hope its better than my poor RTL baby.
>>
> <snip>
> I have had no problems when using the DLINK card. The card
> uses the 8139too module.
>
> Here is the relevent info from lspci:
> 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc RTL8139 Ethernet (rev 10)
>
> And from dmesg:
> eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xe09c3000, 00:50:xx:xx:xx:xx, IRQ 11
> eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'

If you didn't cro§§mix the cut and paste, it then means
the new card uses the same chip, "reputed cheap NIC" than
the other one ?

Poor Mr.Jason's not going to like it ...

Heaven smiles, Earth cries ;-)

>> And from dmesg:
>> eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xe09c3000, 00:50:xx:xx:xx:xx, IRQ 11
>> eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'
>
> If you didn't cro§§mix the cut and paste, it then means
> the new card uses the same chip, "reputed cheap NIC" than
> the other one ?
>
> Poor Mr.Jason's not going to like it ...
>
> Heaven smiles, Earth cries ;-)

Haha! But I think its the different chip: VIA VT6105 Rhine-III
my dmesg tells me:
eth0: VIA VT6105 Rhine-III
eth0: MII PHY

Btw. what an earth is MII PHY?

And damn Microsoft, they misspelled my name:
http://music.msn.com/album/?album=41839578
Who is Mr.Watson? I know its not me...

Its one of those days I guess (AGAIN)

On Tue, 31 May 2005 16:02:53 +0300, Mr.Jason wrote:
> Haha! But I think its the different chip: VIA VT6105 Rhine-III
> my dmesg tells me:
> eth0: VIA VT6105 Rhine-III
> eth0: MII PHY

Why not a good Intel card?

> Btw. what an earth is MII PHY?

MII is the Media Independent Interface (IEE 802.3), and is a (serial) bus
that is used to connect MACs to PHYs (physical media interfaces).

-- Daniel