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A cd with a driver came with the NIC Card. I installed it successfully in Vista but was unable to extract it with UNIX. Do you think that once the driver is installed then DGE-530T will show up on the pull down menu?

Below is what I did to install the driver. Is there anything wrong with the command ? The tar command would not work.. My Unix knowledge is somewhat rusty now.

Preparing the Driver Installation Package
============================================
Before the sk98lin driver installation script can be invoked, the
installation package needs to be unpacked:
1. Login as 'root'.
2. Unpack the driver installation package using the command
# tar xfvj install-???.tar.bz2
or
# bunzip2 -c install-???.tar.bz2 | tar xfv -


Thanks,

Anil

Hi Anil

Following from Googling "D-LINK DGE-530T NIC centos"

Note that this NIC is 10/100/1000 which is why I recommended a 10/100 - these are mostly supported. Take it back and ask for something else - preferably Realtek chipset 10/100 based.

Also I think it needs to be said, my personal experience with D-Link is not at all that stellar. Surf some CentOS forums and see what people there use.

Hi Anil,

I'm catching up now to your earlier postings. Earlier you said you could not post some logs/output because it was not readable in Word or Notepad. That doesn't matter. In the Advanced Editor (of this forum!) click on the paper-clip and select the TXT extension and select the file to upload. We'll be able to see it just fine.

Back to your problem. The first question is: are your drivers working for this particular card? If you run /sbin/ifconfig -a and you see an eth0 device and you see a MAC address (that isn't all 0's), then the driver is working. Here's an example:

Code:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:8B:D3:C9:14
          inet addr:0.0.0.0  Bcast:255.255.255.255  Mask:0.0.0.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

Now that you have a second card in there, if your drivers are properly installed, you will see two ethernet devices.

Now, above at the top of your previous post quoted here, you say the instruction with the drivers claim they work with 2.4.18 and later. RHEL comes with 2.6 Linux, so there's no compatibility question there. The question is: are they correctly installed? You provided some instructions above, but they are not complete. Once you have extracted the package, you must do something. I downloaded the latest version, and the steps I took were as follows:

Code:

  gunzip xzf dge530t_driver_linux_610.tgz.gz
  tar xzf dge530t_driver_linux_610.tgz
  cd sk98lin
  make all
  insmod sk98lin.o

If you get no errors, do the "/sbin/ifconfig -a" command again and you should see the second ethernet device. Now, you want to run the dhclient with that device, which might now be named "eth1". So your command would be "dhclient eth1". (Make sure you have plugged the ethernet cable into the new interface!). If it's named "eth0" then it would be "dhclient eth0". How do you know which device is which? You run /sbin/lspci; the numbers are normally assigned in reverse order of those shown.

Once that works, you'll need to install the module into the right place and enable it for eth0 (to simplify future configuration, the second line below will force the device to operate as "eth0").

Code:

cp sk98lin.o /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/net
echo "alias eth0 sk98lin" >>/etc/modules.conf

Hello Otheus, MickZA and Era,

Thanks for all your support. I tried installing sk98lin driver as suggested by Otheus. I downloaded the latest driver from the D-Link company site. With the 'make all' command it gave errors and there was no output(.o) file. I called for support from D-Link and they charge $39.95 per 30 minutes with NO guarantee that it will work. I don't mind paying if they guarantee it will work......

I feel that MickZA's suggestion is perhaps the best. I got a NIC card today from a friend. This card is made by Intel. The number on the card is: D5013-6003. Tried finding more infornation about it and it is 'HP 10/100-TX PCI LAN Adapter'.

Any suggestions about this new Intel card?

If I install this card, do I have to still install the driver? If yes what driver should I install? I suppose I can get the driver from the Intel website.

If I don't have to install the driver, will this NIC show up in the pull down menu in RHEL5 when configuring the network? I can check it when I get home tonight,but it will nice to know if someone has used it before. According to my friend, this is a very stable and old NIC that works in almost all PC's?

Will look forward to your valuable suggestions.

Best Regards,

Anil

I believe that this card uses a Intel 10/100 chipset in which case all you need to do is physically install, power up and then configure via the network configuration screen. Let us know how it goes.

One of the drivers from the e100 family which ships with Linux should hopefully work out of the box. lspci output would be helpful for determining this.