D-Link DFE-530TX NIC not recognized...

[mess-mate]

My DFE-530TX works perfectly with the via-rhine driver.
mess-mate

On Sun, 14 Sep 2003 17:49:50 -0400
"yo _" <exhausted01 at hotmail.com> wrote:

| The DFE-530TX and DFE-530TX+ use different ethernet chipsets. The D-Link 
| website has information about the older model and what chipset it uses, it's 
| not RealTek 8139, i forget what it actually is though. I remember being 
| concerned with this when i got my 530TX+ though. Good Luck!
| -rian
| 
| 
| >From: Don Croyle <croyle at gelemna.org>
| >To: "ngin " <ngin at operamail.com>
| >CC: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
| >Subject: Re: D-Link DFE-530TX NIC not recognized...
| >Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 16:07:45 -0500
| >
| >"ngin " <ngin at operamail.com> writes:
| >
| > > I have a D-Link DFE-530TX Ethernet NIC installed in a FreeBSD 4.6.2 box. 
| >Looking at:
| > >
| > > freebsd.org/releases/4.6.2R/hardware-i386.html#ETHERNET
| > >
| > > I see my card is supported:
| > >
| > > RealTek 8129/8139 Fast Ethernet NICs ( rl(4) driver)
| > > D-Link DFE-530TX+, DFE-538TX
| > >
| > > But when kernel boots I see no sign of any ethernet card... I think it 
| >should be displayed at these lines:
| > >
| > > pci1:<unknown card>(vendor=0x1106,dev=0x3106)at 9.0 irq 11
| > > pci1:<unknown card>(vendor=0x127a,dev=0x1005)at 13.0 irq 11
| > >
| > > I just don't know how to have it recognize my card. Any suggestions as 
| >to what should be done?
| >
| >Is the rl driver in your kernel?  If it isn't try loading it from the
| >command line with 'kldload /modules/if_rl.ko'.
| >
| >If that works, you need to either add 'device rl' to your kernel
| >configuration and build a new kernel or add 'rl_load="YES"' to
| >/boot/loader.conf.
| >--
| >I've always wanted to be a dilettante, but I've never quite been ready
| >to make the commitment.
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