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From: Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>
To: Hans Zaunere <zaunere@yahoo.com>
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: D-Link DFE-530TX+ Support
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This card (and it's sister card, the DFE-538TX/R) both use the rl0
chipset.  Patches to support these cards have been submitted to the 
maintainer of the rl0 driver and via send-pr, but they haven't made 
it to -stable yet.

See PR # 25640 and PR # 25566 and PR # 29027 for patches.

-- 
Matthew Emmerton      || matt@gsicomp.on.ca
GSI Computer Services || http://www.gsicomp.on.ca

On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Hans Zaunere wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I've just installed the PCI D-Link DFE-530TX+ card
> with the generic kernel and no mention of it is made
> in either dmesg or ifconfig -a.  The only thing I see
> in dmesg is:
> 
> pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x1186, dev=0x1300) at
> 16.0 irq 11
> 
> I've done some research and found that this card's
> prior version, (without the '+') worked fine, but this
> version, which has WOL needs some tweaking, but will
> work fine after manually setting the media type.  I do
> not need to use the WOL feature.  I've read that this
> '+' card uses the Realtek 8139 chipset.  I also notice
> that the GENERIC kernel has rl support built in,
> however nothing is working still.
> 
> Could anyone tell me how to get this card working? 
> Either something to read, something to download, or
> something to do with the kernel.  And someone tell me,
> if once this card works, is it good?  Anything would
> be great,
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Hans Z.
> zaunere@yahoo.com
> 
> 
> 
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