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I decided it was finally time to upgrade my home LAN to 100 Mbps and
from
http://www.scyld.com/network/ethercard.html
it seemed that the DFE-550TX was well supported with the
"sunlance"-driver.

I am running Linux 2.4.2 on my server and Windows 95 on the client.
When I install the DFE-550TX and compile the driver into the kernel, it
seems like all telnet/ssh sessions lock up when more than a few bytes at
a time are written from the computer to the terminal (like en "ls" or
"man ifconfig").

The same happens if I try ftp or even Samba:
I can log on to the SMB-share and browse it. I can even COPY files -
large files - to it - but when I try to READ from the share - it just
hangs and Windows gives me a timeout.

I have tried with another DFE-550TX with the same result.

I have borrowed a 3COM 3C905B-TX form work, and it just works. So I
think there might be something wrong with the sundance.c-driver in 2.4.0
- 2.4.2 (and -ac9 and 2.4.3-pre1) (i haven't tried it under Linux
<2.4.0)

I would like to add that a DFE-550TX I have installed in a Win95-client
works flawlessly (so far).

Am I the only one with this observation?

Best regards
Nikolaj Lyngbye Rasmussen

matt

Quote:> Hi fellow linuxers :)

> I decided it was finally time to upgrade my home LAN to 100 Mbps and
> from
> http://www.scyld.com/network/ethercard.html
> it seemed that the DFE-550TX was well supported with the
> "sunlance"-driver.

> I am running Linux 2.4.2 on my server and Windows 95 on the client.
> When I install the DFE-550TX and compile the driver into the kernel, it
> seems like all telnet/ssh sessions lock up when more than a few bytes at
> a time are written from the computer to the terminal (like en "ls" or
> "man ifconfig").

> The same happens if I try ftp or even Samba:
> I can log on to the SMB-share and browse it. I can even COPY files -
> large files - to it - but when I try to READ from the share - it just
> hangs and Windows gives me a timeout.

> I have tried with another DFE-550TX with the same result.

> I have borrowed a 3COM 3C905B-TX form work, and it just works. So I
> think there might be something wrong with the sundance.c-driver in 2.4.0
> - 2.4.2 (and -ac9 and 2.4.3-pre1) (i haven't tried it under Linux
> <2.4.0)

> I would like to add that a DFE-550TX I have installed in a Win95-client
> works flawlessly (so far).

> Am I the only one with this observation?

> Best regards
> Nikolaj Lyngbye Rasmussen

Quote:>I got it working using the de4x5 driver in redhat 6.2 kernel 2.4.0 (i tried
>the via-rhine and realtek as well as a couple others).  maybe try that.

Thanks for the suggestion, but unfortunately I couldn't even get the
de4x5-module to detect the NIC, so I think I just have to sit and wait
for an updated driver.

Are you sure you have succes with the DFE-550TX and not the DFE-530TX
or DFE-538TX or similar?

Anyway, thank you for the reply :)

Best regards
Nikolaj Lyngbye Rasmussen