Hi ppl. I have just finished installing BeOs 5 Pro on my computer (my pentium 3). Graphics drivers are installed and running great, printer drivers running great, everything is fine, eccept I cannot set up my internet connection. I have the D-Link DFE-530TX card, and the D-Link DI-524 router (wireless + 4 wired ports). I saw that my DFE-530TX is native on BeOS, so either I am doing somethign wrong when trying to set up my network, or my router/NIC is not compatible. help would be appreciated! BeOs and Linux are the only two OSs I havent been able to successfully set up for internet browsing lol current OSs successfully installed: Slackware Linux Mac OS X BeOS Windows every single version... even Longhorn

Two ways to go. One is the nic doesn't have a driver. The other is the driver is good and your network setup is wrong. The first is no driver. Not an easy thing on beos to see what has been chosen. On boot, beos each time looks at what hardware is present. Then tries to look at what drivers it has. Inside the driver is a hardware id and vendor id. Now most times beos selects exactly what equals. Driver must have numbers for vendor and card id. Sometimes beos uses best guess. Wheeewww. Too much info. On to your issue. There are some issues with those nic's. You'd have to find which version to see if it is supported might be a way to go. See bedrivers dot com and click on Frizbe icon. Let's say beos had picked a correct driver. Then we need to go to network settings. One goof is you need to put a name in the host tab. While there see if the NIC has the choice of picking IP/dns. If no show then it didn't pick a driver. Lastly might use listdev for ideas of conflicts that might have stopped the device.

I have the first version of the card, version A. I will have to check about the drivers, but in order to do that, where must I go? because I tried setting my network settings and it doesnt want to work,... I tried using (and not using) DHCP, but to no avail. Thank you for your help. current OSs successfully installed: Slackware Linux Mac OS X BeOS Windows every single version... even Longhorn

Did you read at bedrivers dot com? Press the frizbe icon for device info. I think one version used one driver and the other used another. Did you put anything in the network panel blank for "host"? Use listdev and look what it says.. Let us know!

I just checked on FrizBe, and my version is fully native. Since I am on my iBook, I cannot check right now about the other things, since my mother is on the PC (sigh...) but maybe later tonight, I will. I know that I didn;'t enter anything for Host... what should I put? I put my DNS to 255.255.255.0 IP to 192.168.0.22 Subnet mask 255.255.255.0 and my gateway to 192.168.0.1 in the interface type, I only have 3Com 2000 sor something and another one, an etherlink something... sont know what to use... ports either, etc... any help is appreciated! Thanks current OSs successfully installed: Slackware Linux Mac OS X BeOS Windows every single version... even Longhorn

I use the word "test" without quotation marks. Be sure to get the update to R5.03 if you don't already have it. Darn, I forgot that is needed for many nic issues.