Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 12:27:03 -0600 From: jacks@sage-american.com To: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> Cc: Nils Holland <nils@tisys.org>, jianyi dai <jdai@eng.utoledo.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: D-Link card Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.20011128122703.01042450@mail.sage-american.com> In-Reply-To: <3C0529E0.6080307@owt.com> References: <3.0.5.32.20011128100138.01042450@mail.sage-american.com> <3.0.5.32.20011128105555.01042450@mail.sage-american.com>
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Yep, forgot to mention I am using 4.4-STABLE and have two rl driven NICs in the DSL box... one is a D-Link DFE530TX+ and the other is Addtron AEF-360TX... both work well... (rl0 and rl1)... At 10:16 AM 11.28.2001 -0800, Kent Stewart wrote: > > >jacks@sage-american.com wrote: > >> Yes, indeed it uses the rl driver which is already in the GENERIC kernel.... >> >> At 05:33 PM 11.28.2001 +0100, Nils Holland wrote: >> >>>I don't currently own either of these cards, but from what I know, the >>>DFE530TX needs the vr driver, while the DFE530TX+ needs the rl driver. >>>This is something you should keep in your head when buying one of these >>>cards - they definately won't work if you use just the wrong of the two >>>drivers with the wrong card ;-) >>> >>>Greetings >>>Nils >>> >>>On Wed, 28 Nov 2001 jacks@sage-american.com wrote: >>> >>> >>>>I'm running one now for DSL with no problem.... >>>> >>>>At 10:39 AM 11.28.2001 -0500, jianyi dai wrote: >>>> >>>>>In the FreeBSD 4.2 release note. D-Link DFE-530TX is supported. >>>>>But how about DFE-530TX+ ? >>>>> > > >A newer DFE-530TX+ was taken into account with the following change > > > Revision 1.38.2.7 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs], Thu >Jul 19 18:33:07 2001 UTC (4 months, 1 week ago) by wpaul >Branch: RELENG_4 >CVS Tags: RELENG_4_4_BP, RELENG_4_4_0_RELEASE, RELENG_4_4 >Changes since 1.38.2.6: +6 -3 lines >Diff to previous 1.38.2.6 (colored) to branchpoint 1.38 (colored) next >main 1.39 (colored) > >MFC: add the PCI ID for the D-Link DFE-530TX+/DFE-538TX. > >There was a similar change to if_rlreg.h. This is a long time after 4.2 >was released. Without these changes, the new 530TX+ isn't recognized by >the controller. > >Kent > > > >-- >Kent Stewart >Richland, WA > >mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com >http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html >FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > Best regards, Jack L. Stone, Server Admin Sage-American http://www.sage-american.com jacks@sage-american.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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