* Re: DFE-580TX problems you posted on 05-24-02 [not found] <20020723203037.GA29459@pobox.com> @ 2002-07-23 21:39 ` Ben Greear 2002-07-24 15:25 ` Jason Lunz 2002-09-05 21:35 ` Ryan S. Upton 0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Ben Greear @ 2002-07-23 21:39 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Ryan S. Upton, linux-kernel Ryan S. Upton wrote: > I apologise for this imposition. I'm sending you mail that only asks for help. I was hoping you found a solution to the problems you were seeing about the Dlink DEF-580tx. I say the message you sent into kernel.org. > > http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0205.3/0013.html > > I've been looking for three days for a solution to the same problems iyou described. I am seeing these with a newly compiled 2.4.18 kernel. Have you had any success since May? > > Thanks, > -R > I'm CC'ing LMKL in hopes that this gets in the search engines so that I quit getting 5 of these mails a day :) The fix for the DFE-580tx in Linux is to either download the driver from dlink's site (I don't have the exact URL, but you can find it if you look.), or perhaps use Becker's latest driver from www.scyld.com. I hear the kernel will be updated with a working driver very soon (maybe it has already??) Thanks, Ben -- Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> <Ben_Greear AT excite.com> President of Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com ScryMUD: http://scry.wanfear.com http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: DFE-580TX problems you posted on 05-24-02 2002-07-23 21:39 ` DFE-580TX problems you posted on 05-24-02 Ben Greear @ 2002-07-24 15:25 ` Jason Lunz 2002-09-05 21:35 ` Ryan S. Upton 1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Jason Lunz @ 2002-07-24 15:25 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Ben Greear; +Cc: linux-kernel In gmane.linux.kernel, you wrote: > The fix for the DFE-580tx in Linux is to either download the driver > from dlink's site (I don't have the exact URL, but you can find it if > you look.), or perhaps use Becker's latest driver from www.scyld.com. That's not the whole story. All the drivers I've tried will work if compiled with USE_IO_OPS defined, but will behave badly under load. That is, when heavily loaded they will lock up and reset after a several-second timeout expires. This is true for Becker's 1.09 driver, the latest in-kernel driver, and Edward Peng's napi sundance driver. (With the exception that the napi driver doesn't recover after it locks up). Peng's driver is at http://edward_peng.tripod.com/, and his email address from the dl2k driver indicates that he works for Dlink. I looked on dlink's web and ftp sites, but was unable to find any linux driver for the DFE-580TX. How did you find it? -- Jason Lunz Reflex Security lunz@reflexsecurity.com http://www.reflexsecurity.com/ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: DFE-580TX problems you posted on 05-24-02 2002-07-23 21:39 ` DFE-580TX problems you posted on 05-24-02 Ben Greear 2002-07-24 15:25 ` Jason Lunz @ 2002-09-05 21:35 ` Ryan S. Upton 2002-09-09 16:42 ` Stephan von Krawczynski 1 sibling, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread From: Ryan S. Upton @ 2002-09-05 21:35 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Ben Greear, linux-kernel Thanks, and hopefully this too will lighten your load. I was able to find a driver that does work for the DFE-580TX. It appears to be a derrivitive of DB's sundance 1.03a. It is being distributed from a dlink site and the license "MODULE_LICENSE" tag has been modified (removed) so this may taint GPL-Free-LGPL pristine machines, but the GPL still remains at the top... (?) IANAL. Thanks to whoever modified this to work with the DFE-580TX (MIND THE LICENSE THOUGH!) and to everyone who posted allowing me to find this. Here's the link. http://tsd.dlink.com.tw/info.nsf/80d023dbef05f90048256adf002a91be/6dbbd6ab52943b1348256bd6002a4b4e?OpenDocument -R Ryan S. Upton ryanu@pobox.com On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 02:39:56PM -0700, Ben Greear wrote: > Ryan S. Upton wrote: > >I apologise for this imposition. I'm sending you mail that only asks for > >help. I was hoping you found a solution to the problems you were seeing > >about the Dlink DEF-580tx. I say the message you sent into kernel.org. > >http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0205.3/0013.html > > > >I've been looking for three days for a solution to the same problems iyou > >described. I am seeing these with a newly compiled 2.4.18 kernel. Have you > >had any success since May? > >Thanks, > >-R > > > > I'm CC'ing LMKL in hopes that this gets in the search engines so that I > quit getting 5 of these mails a day :) > > The fix for the DFE-580tx in Linux is to either download the driver > from dlink's site (I don't have the exact URL, but you can find it if > you look.), or perhaps use Becker's latest driver from www.scyld.com. > > I hear the kernel will be updated with a working driver very soon (maybe > it has already??) > > Thanks, > Ben > > > -- > Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com> <Ben_Greear AT excite.com> > President of Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com > ScryMUD: http://scry.wanfear.com http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear > ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
* Re: DFE-580TX problems you posted on 05-24-02 2002-09-05 21:35 ` Ryan S. Upton @ 2002-09-09 16:42 ` Stephan von Krawczynski 0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread From: Stephan von Krawczynski @ 2002-09-09 16:42 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Ryan S. Upton; +Cc: greearb, linux-kernel On Thu, 5 Sep 2002 14:35:55 -0700 "Ryan S. Upton" <rupton@pobox.com> wrote: Hello all, regarding DFE-580TX I have some additions: 1) the 2.4.20-pre5 included sundance.c does not work at all with a recent Dlink-card, the interface statistics show complete garbage and there is no link possible. 2) The dlink driver Ryan points to does not handle mixed 10- and 100-MBit configuration. 100 MBit wins, 10 Mbit gives no link. 3) Donalds' drivers (www.scyld.com) cannot be statically linked with the kernel, there are dups in pci-scan.c and the current 2.4 kernel. => 1) In fact I wouldn't buy DFE-580TX today if I had a real chance of finding a 4 port tulip-driven card... 2) For 2.4-kernel something should be done, because currently the situation is a mess. Regards, Stephan > Thanks, and hopefully this too will lighten your load. I was able to find a > driver that does work for the DFE-580TX. It appears to be a derrivitive of > DB's sundance 1.03a. It is being distributed from a dlink site and the > license "MODULE_LICENSE" tag has been modified (removed) so this may taint > GPL-Free-LGPL pristine machines, but the GPL still remains at the top... (?) > IANAL. > > Thanks to whoever modified this to work with the DFE-580TX (MIND THE LICENSE > THOUGH!) and to everyone who posted allowing me to find this. Here's the > link. > > http://tsd.dlink.com.tw/info.nsf/80d023dbef05f90048256adf002a91be/6dbbd6ab52943b1348256bd6002a4b4e?OpenDocument > > -R > Ryan S. Upton > ryanu@pobox.com ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 4+ messages in thread
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