Would you recommend the product? no | Price you paid?: $15.00 | Rating: 1
Kernel (uname -r):
2.6.3
Distribution:
Mandrake 10.0
I'm glad this NIC is working for others, but it is not working for me.
Please note that I have 2 completely boxes running the same distribition of Linux using this card, and the card fails in the same manner on both. Another brand of NIC works fine in either box.
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $17.00 | Rating: 10
Kernel (uname -r):
2.4.27, 2.6.5-1.358
Distribution:
Fedora Core 2
It works just great on a lot of kernels I've used, but the two that I use the most are the two defined above. If for some reason you can't get it to work by default, download the kernel source, extract it, do make menuconfig, then in Network Device Support goto Ethernet 10 100 mbit, then put in the RTL-8139 drivers. Then compile it and it should work! If you don't know how to compile a kernel just look it up in mabye the software forum. Otherwise this card works great.
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $5.00 | Rating: 10
Kernel (uname -r):
2.6.9-1.11_FC2
Distribution:
Fedora Core 2
Had an older SMC 10M Tulip-based card in the machine initally, wasn't recognized at all. Picked up a NETGEAR WG311v2 wireless card and got it working with manual setup using ACX100/111 drivers.
Pulled out the SMC, then based on a posting I believe I read here, went into BIOS and turned PCI bus mastering ON. Added the D-Link 10/100Mbps card (picked it up for $5 after a rebate from OfficeMax) and presto, recognized it right away, installed and configured perfectly with no intervention.
Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: $16.00 | Rating: 10
Kernel (uname -r):
2.6.11.4-21.7-default
Distribution:
SuSE Linux 9.3 Professional
This thing saved me!
Nice NIC! Recently, my router became useless as a router (damn DI-624), kept reseting evry 15 seconds. I didn't waste a second. it was always my dream to turn my fileserver into an advanced, highly configurable and solid router. But I had only one ethernet card built-in on my mobo.
Not even taking a chance to think, I went to BestBuy and bought this one out of the 2 they had ("huge" selection :D), previously checking to be sure that the DI-624 can be used as a "switch+access point".
I did a couple of stupid mistakes that just stole my time, but in an hour, this card was set up as an external interface device, while my onboard device was the internal one. Did some wire-cutting to turn a regular ethernet cable into a crossover, reseted my router a couple of times, hooked everything up and followed a guide to set up SuSE as a router, then... voila! I have my network all set.
What can I say... It works. I wouldn't be typing this message right now without it, cuz I wouldn't have internet connection!
This card works with the via_rhine module in all three distros listed above running versions of the 2.6 kernel.
Dlink recommends compiling the rhinefet module (tar ball supplied on the CD supplied with the card) but I couldn't get it to compile. After googling on the problem, I tried the via_rhine module which was recommended for earlier versions of the DFE530TX+ card. After setting up the card, I rebooted and had internet connection.
I've also tried the 8139too module, but it didn't work on my machine.
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