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Re: Dlink DFE-500TX Rev-C5 (Tulip 21140-AF)




>I tried to use this NIC with etherboot-4.2.13 but the Boot-Image (both
>tulip/ntulip) isn't able to get Layer 1 up. (Hub/NIC don't show link) It
>prints the (correct) MAC and then tries to get it's IPs (bootp) but as i
>said before there is no Layer 1 connect. The regular tulip-driver of
>2.0.37 (tomsrtbt 1.7.185) gets the card to work. (I could telnet/ftp ...)

Yes, someone needs to add more code to the tulip driver to handle
other clones.

>Btw does a driver for via-rhine NICs exist?

Not yet. Someone threatened to work on it.
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