D-Link DFE-530TX PCI Adapter Driver for Linux
Actually, this is all good information, but the actual card I have is the DFE-530TX+, which uses the rtl8139 driver. See
LinuxDlink530TXPlus for details.
- D-Link Linux Support Page
- DFE530TX_LinuxKernel2_2and2_4.tar: DLink DFE530TX Driver for Linux 2.2 and 2.4
- redhat.txt: Instructions for installing driver on redhat linux
- If you are installing a network adapter to an existing Linux installation, you can execute netconf utility and access Basic Host Information. Choose the kernel module to match the proper driver for the network adapter. You would need to set up the IP addresses and other network parameters properly.
Drivers may be updated individually by following the directions in
http://scyld.com/expert/modules.html. You will need to build both the driver.o and pci-scan.o modules using the following source files from
ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/
the driver source file
pci-scan.c
pci-scan.h and
kern_compat.h
In the instructions below driver.c refers to the name of the driver source file for your device e.g. 3c59x.c, and driver.o refers to the compiled driver binary module.
Copy the driver source files to a convenient directory. I usually use /usr/src/modules/.
Compile both the driver file and pci-scan.c using the compile-command at the bottom of the source files. If a compile-command is not there use the following compile command:
gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -O6 -c driver.c
gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -O6 -c pci-scan.c
With some distributions, especially those based on the 2.4 kernel,
you may need to add the following options to the compile command
-I/usr/src/linux/include -include /usr/src/linux/include/linux/modversions.h
As 'root', test the module by doing
insmod pci-scan.o
insmod driver.o
Install the modules in the proper location for your distribution. This is usually /lib/modules/kernel-version/net/driver.o. The command to do this is
install -m 644 pci-scan.o driver.o /lib/modules/`uname -r`/net/
The uname -r command expands to the current kernel version name.
Red Hat 7.0 has a flawed configuration with their default install. The symptom is a variety of errors when trying to compile the driver update source RPM. The easiest work-around is to use a precompiled RPM for Red Hat 7.0 running the x86 uniprocessor kernel from
ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/netdrivers-rh70.i386.rpm
Red Hat 7.0 uses the header files from an unreleased 2.3.99 kernel, rather than installing the header files from the kernel that is actually running. This was an attempt to make user-level binaries independent of the specific kernel version, but it makes it impossible to automatically build kernel modules.
A second problem is that 7.0 provides an experimental version of gcc that was not intended for public release. The stable version of gcc needed to correctly compile the kernel has been renamed to kgcc.
The work-around is to substitute kgcc for gcc and to add -I/usr/src/linux/include on the compile command line when compiling by hand. The Makefile in the tar file and RPM automatically include this compile flag, however they cannot automatically use 'kgcc'.
To repeat: this is a flaw that was introduced with Red Hat 7.0. It is a Red Hat configuration problem, not a driver update distribution bug. The symptom of this bug is compile error messages such as
tulip.c: In function `tulip_open':
tulip.c:1437: structure has no member named `tbusy'
tulip.c:1438: structure has no member named `start'
...
The updated drivers may be also be linked into the kernel, rather than being used as a module that is linked later. Replace the drivers in drivers/net/* with the updated driver list.
Most kernel versions do not natively support the pci-scan.c layer. You will have to explicitly add pci-scan.o to the L_OBJS entry in drivers/net/Makefile.
L_TARGET := net.a
-L_OBJS := auto_irq.o
+L_OBJS := auto_irq.o pci-scan.o
-M_OBJS :=
+M_OBJS := pci-scan.o
MOD_LIST_NAME := NET_MODULES
Note that the 2.4 kernel is supported only as an experimental system. We do not recommend using 2.4 kernels on production systems.
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