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D-Link DFE-530TX+ (RTL8139) not working

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Name: Ryan Parrish
Date: December 6, 2001 at 09:55:22 Pacific
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I just installed BeOS 5.0 Professional last week and love a lot of things about it. However, my NIC won't work. I went out to Circuit City and bought the D-Link because the chipset is Realtek 8139 and I saw that it's supported (http://www.betips.net/chunga.php?ID=513).

I downloaded the drivers from Realtek in Win2000 (obviously the card works in Win2000). Then in BeOS, I copied the .tar from my NTFS partition over to the BFS partition and expanded it. The Realtek .tar expands into the '/boot/beos/system/add-ons/kernel/drivers/bin' and '/dev' directories (as is clearly explained at http://www.betips.net/chunga.php?ID=309). Still nothing.

So, from reading BeTip #309, I copied the 'rtl8139' driver from '/beos/system...' to the '/home/config...' equivalent, set the link in '/home/.../dev/net', and deleted the entries in '/beos/system.../bin' and '/dev'. Still nothing.

With the driver still in '/home/config...', I decided to take a look at the '/boot/home/config/settings/network' file (Thanks BeTip #102 - http://www.betips.net/chunga.php?ID=102). It had an entry of "ne2000" for DEVICELINK (I think from a shot-in-the-dark attempt at adding a jumpered card, even though I knew better). So, I changed the DEVICELINK to "rtl8139", the name of the Realtek driver. Still nothing.

I have tried several last-ditch variations on the above, like putting the full path of the rtl8139 file in for DEVICELINK. I have looked at the kernel debug info in the syslog, but didn't see anything that hinted at a NIC. I have clicked Restart Network after each step (the only time I've gotten any error messages is when I configured the ne2000 jumpered ISA) and rebooted several times, but nothing is giving me any results or feedback.

So, how do I tell BeOS to use the Realtek 8139 chipset driver for my D-Link NIC? Am I barking up the wrong tree so far?

Thanks,
Ryan Parrish



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Response Number 1
Name: Ryan Parrish
Date: December 7, 2001 at 17:55:43 Pacific
Reply:


This was solved by installing a
patch
of the Realtek 8139 drivers. Now it's working fine.

- Ryan Parrish


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Response Number 2
Name: jerson
Date: January 29, 2002 at 19:00:06 Pacific
Reply:

D-link DFE-530TX
I NEED drivers for windows xp


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Response Number 3
Name: khalid
Date: March 7, 2002 at 04:47:31 Pacific
Reply:

dear/sir

hi

please I have mainbord biltin kind (dtk)
but i did't find driver for network chipset
(RTL81398) if u please send me this driver


with best wishes


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