Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Network card problems

Standard Via-Rhine drivers should work with this card (we get full 100Mbps out of the box) but Smoothwall has proven problematic all round. I can't be more helpful - we abandoned until Smoothwall is fully matured, and is installable by a windows-geek (like myself) <lol>. We could ping the box but not talk. Good luck. Paul Paul P. Ellison ICT Manager Edgehill College -------------------------------------------------------------- Legal Advisory: Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, 2000. --------------------------------------------- You are warned that all electronic communications are subject to interception for regulatory, quality control and crime detection purposes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Edgehill IT Department Email Service. Please check sender's address from body of Message for return address. Find us at: www.edgecoll.clara.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ----------

From: Gary Stainburn To: npauli ; suse-linux-uk-schools@suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-linux-uk-schools] Network card problems Date: 25 May 2001 09:19

I've successfully got a DFE530-TX card running on an MDK7.2 system here. Somewhere (can't find it now, thought it was on the floppy but it isn't) there is some documentation on installing these cards on a Linux system. You should use a rtl8139 driver with this card. Also, to get full-duplex and 100Mbit out of it you need to make some kernel changes - although on MDK these settings were already on.

Gary

On Thursday 24 May 2001 8:30 pm, npauli wrote:

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Dear All,

I'm trying to install Smoothwall-0.9.8 onto an IBM P166 that I bought from Morgan Computers. I'm using a D-Link DFE530-TX card that uses a VIA-Rhine driver and a PCI slot but I'm having no joy getting the card to install on the box. The mainboard is a 'Personal Computer 300GL System Board'.

I use a boot.img floppy that comes with Smoothwall and the opening screen brings up a boot: _ prompt and offers me the chance of entering kernel parameters or just pressing RETURN. Should I be typing in something at this point?

I get successfully through partitioning the hard disk but fall over at the first hurdle on the 'configure networking' stage. The screen starts off by telling me: 'You should now configure networking by first loading the correct driver for the GREEN interface.' This throws me a bit. Does this mean that it really hasn't detected anything? Autoprobing fails and when I choose the 'VIA Rhine PCI Fast Ethernet, etc' option from the list of drivers it immediately flashes back 'Error: Unable to load driver module'.

The machine came with a network card already in an ISA slot and the diagram of the System Board shows an onboard 'Integrated Ethernet Controller' when I gave this a try at least its LEDs flashed. At no time during the power on and boot up do the LEDs on the PCI netwlrk card flash. Does this mean that the PCI slots are somehow disabled?

In the machine's 'Configuration / Setup Utilty' under 'Advanced Setup' there is scope to toggle options to do with PCI Control. Changes here don't alter what happens at all.

Has anyone any advice?

-- Gary Stainburn

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