[netdrivers] D-LINK DFE-580TX four port nic and sundance driver

[Mark Cave-Ayland]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Schobel [mailto:pschobel at porchlight.ca] 
> Sent: 21 December 2004 14:42
> To: Mark Cave-Ayland
> Cc: netdrivers at scyld.com; becker at scyld.com
> Subject: RE: [netdrivers] D-LINK DFE-580TX four port nic and 
> sundance driver
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks for the reply,
> 
> It's critical for me to get these cards working properly 
> because we ordered a bunch of them and put them into service. 
>  Ordering other more expensive four port cards and RMA'ing 
> all the D-Link cards that we have as well as driving around 
> to the different sites to install them is not an option that 
> I want to consider so if there's anything I can do to help, 
> by all means let me know.


Hi Peter,

Interestingly I have just noticed that if you go to Dlink UK
http://www.dlink.co.uk and then go to support, then drivers for the
DFE-580TX, there is actually a separate Linux driver for download that looks
like an earlier version of the sundance driver.

If you could compile this under a 2.4 kernel (Fedora Core 1) and see if this
module works, then that would be great. If it does work, I can probably do a
code comparison and try and figure out why the current module is broken. The
other thing to do would be to bring this up on the linux-kernel mailing
list, as I imagine somewhere there would be able to help.

I've also submitted a technical support request on the Dlink website
(http://support.dlink.com) explaining that the current kernel drivers are
broken.


Kind regards,

Mark.

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