Subject: Re: 10/100 ethernet card in PPC
From: Nathan A. McQuillen (nm@steaky.dhs.org)
Date: Tue Nov 27 2001 - 05:10:04 MST
what's the chipset?
here's what a few minutes on google has revealed (a good skill to develop
if you're going to be a linux user, btw): d-link's web site has a lot of
information about this card, as does scyld.
From d-link: (http://support.dlink.com/faq/view.asp?prod_id=487) You have
two options for what the card may be, either the dfe-530tx+ rev. a, b, or
c, or the same but rev. d1 or d2; looks like if you have the latter it'll
be more of a pain since d-link wants you to compile the drivers from the
install disk (and i just don't know how easy it is to cross-compile pci
modules -- anybody?) There's also a lot of info on the realtek modules
at scyld (really, the first place after google to look if you have /any/
ethernet trouble): http://www.scyld.com/network/rtl8139.html.
somebody else'll have to walk you through the complete setup 'cause i've
only done it once & that was over a year ago, but... does the machine at
least find the card on boot? (check your boot log.)
as far as the slowness issue, again, if you'd post the content of your
config files it'd be a lot easier to figure out what's up with your
network problems. otherwise it's shooting in the dark. at least post your
pingtimes (to router, to other hosts on your subnet, to a remote
system...) and the results of a traceroute to something on- and
off-subnet. do this NOW and post the results!!
- n2
PS - also, for clarity and legibility, you'll probably want to use 'Mac'
or 'MacOS' in your posts instead of MAC -- MAC refers to an ethernet
hardware address (Media Access Control address), confusing if you're
scanning somebody's ethernet-focused post. More at
http://webopedia.internet.com/TERM/M/MAC_address.html.
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Dan Calhoun wrote:
> OK folks, I'm having serious connection problems with my
> 8500/604e-200/256 Ram/running YDL 2.1, DHCP will not function so I had
> to set up the onboard ethernet (eth0) to static, it connects the web
> as if it were a 14.4 modem, the MAC OS surprisingly connects really
> well so I know it has to be some set up file that I'm missing,my
> little network at home has been stable and functioning for years. This
> network is tied to and 4 port Linksys Cable Router and that is
> connected to a Cable modem. My wintel box ,98SE, 1ghx AMD flies, Mac
> 8500-G3,350 same thing, the YDL 2.1 crawls.. This weekend at Fry's I
> purchased 2 cards 1 USB 2 port and a DFE 530+ 10/100 ethernet card for
> MAC/PC Installed MAC drivers, bingo, functions great, increase in
> speed noticeable. Now I'm trying to install this unit as (eth1) on the
> YDL 2.1 side and a DUH! It came with linux drivers obviously they're
> for the wintel box. While digging in the LIB files and in the kernel
> drivers I see an earlier numbered driver than my board came with so I
> think the driver is OK but the installation procedures for the PC is
> definitely not the same. As the usr/include/linux/modversions.h
> doesn't seem to exist on this ver. Can anyone point me to the
> procedure or the syntax to load this driver in the proper file for
> use, that is providing that it will work...........Thanks in advance
>
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