Re: DFE-580TX problems you posted on 05-24-02

Re: DFE-580TX problems you posted on 05-24-02

[Ben Greear]

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


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Re: DFE-580TX problems you posted on 05-24-02

[Jason Lunz]

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?

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Re: DFE-580TX problems you posted on 05-24-02

[Ryan S. Upton]

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
> 

Re: DFE-580TX problems you posted on 05-24-02

[Stephan von Krawczynski]

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