Topic awaiting preservation: Linux network trouble

Hi!
I'm having trouble installing my network card D-link DFE -530TX.
I have found two guides on the internet which shows how to compile
and install the driver . Neither of them work.
If any of you have experience installing this card in debian please reply.

Thanks!

Ok, I'm downloading the linux kernel 2.6.9 and I'm
hoping that it has native support for my network card.

installing new kernel...haaaaaard.

Ok, I have given up on the kernel installation
so i need to know anyone have successfully
installed debian with an internet connection.
How did you do it?
What kind of network card do you have?

also I found a good resource on debian here

I've installed debian serveral times via the net. Usually with a Via Rhine card, though.

Huh? Installing a new kernel in debian is the easiest thing. apt-get install name-of-kernel image. confirm.confirm.confirm. reboot. done.

without network it's sligthly more troublesome. Fetch .deb to the machine somehow. dpkg-install my-deb-file. Then see above, at 'confirm'.

anyhow, some googling in the groups suggests that your card just happens to either have a Via Rhine, or a Realtek 8193
("the DFE-530TX is a Via Rhine I or II, the DFE-530TX+ is a Realtek 8193. The modules are in the kernel-image packages. If you haven't built your own kernel you already have it. Run "modconf"."), which incidentially is what I'd suggest you do. run modconf, see if you can load the drivers.

so long,

->Tyberius Prime

Well the kernel itself was not the problem.

It was updating the requierd packages to run with the kernel
which gave me problems. They would "clash" with other programs.

and an other problem that i only have the kernel source not the deb file.
So first I have to compile and most of the time it comes a lot of errors.
I'll try the things you mention and I hope it helps...


Thanks four your help TP, i appreciate it!

modconf didn't work probabaly because it didn't support the VIA Rhine III.

Mandrake recognized my networkcard as eth0: VIA Technologies | VT6105 [Rhine III 10/100]

So it's a VIA Rhine III card.... gotta google for this!!



(Edited by OlssonE on 12-08-2004 16:19)

I followed one article and it seemd promising. Not an error under the whole article (article is here)

But when I 'dmesg' I only get a lot of IRQ errors nothing like the on he has on his page... *sigh*

So I'm back to.... What NetworkCard works with debian nativily?

well, anything with a via rhine I or II ;-)

heh... well which brand has VIA Rhine I/II?
I guess I have to ask at my local computer shop!