Re: Can't get driver to work: D-Link DFE-570TX (de4x5.o) on Linux

[Martin Josefsson]

On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Avi Green wrote:

> 
> Dear folks,
> 
> I apologize for bothering you, but if by any chance this is an easy
> question for you to answer (wishful thinking, huh?) I'd be very grateful
> if you would.*
> 
> I have some new Hawk PCs (Pentium-III) with D-Link DFE-570TX Fast
> Ethernet 4-port server adapters.  When I build the machines using Red
> Hat's standard 6.2 installer, it automatically finds the de4x5.o driver
> module, inserts it into the kernel (which is 2.2), and sets up four
> Ethernet interfaces using that driver.
> 
> Unfortunately, when I build the 2.4 kernel (which I must do because I
> need Netfilter), I can't get the card to work.
> 
> * I've tried inserting the old de4x5.o module that came with 2.2, but
> there are unmatched symbols.
> 
> * I've tried inserting the new de4x5.o module that came with 2.4 in
> drivers/net, but it either complains of no such device, I/O error, or
> "couldn't find the kernel version the module was compiled for".
> 
> * I've tried configuring the kernel with the 3c590/3c900, {DEPCA, DE10x,
> DE200, DE201, DE202, DE422}, Tulip (dc21x4x), Generic DECchip, and VIA
> Rhine chips, but it doesn't seem to help, whether they're included as
> modules or compiled into the kernel.  I've downloaded the latest Tulip
> driver but haven't tried it yet.
> 
> * I've spent many hours trying to get this to work, and my manager is
> getting desparate.
> 
> Do you have any ideas?

I'm using 2.4 with DFE-570TX cards in a bunch of routers and other
machines and I've never had any problems with the cards. I use the tulip
driver in 2.4 in some machines (not routers) and in the routers I use an
optimized version 
(ftp://robur.slu.se/pub/Linux/net-development/tulip-ss010111.tar.gz is the
latest stable version)

I havn't had the problem you describe. Everything works fine here.

/Martin