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Subject: Re: D-Link DFE-530TX NIC not recognized...
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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@gelemna.org>
>To: "ngin " <ngin@operamail.com>
>CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
>Subject: Re: D-Link DFE-530TX NIC not recognized...
>Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 16:07:45 -0500
>
>"ngin " <ngin@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.
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