[olug] D-Link DFE-530TX+ NICs and Linux?

[Mike Peterson]

I have Linux and Win98 dual booting and running with Dlink DFE-530TX 10/100
PCI NIC cards in 2 machines. I have been running them for over a year with
several different distributions. (Redhat, Mandrake beta and release of
each).
No problems with the NIC cards yet.

Are you using an off-brand or cheap switch box and the screen does what you
describe?
Or are you using a name brand switch box?

Do you run VNC on anything now?



----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Kauffman" <dkauffman at tconl.com>
To: "OLUG" <olug at bstc.net>
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 9:33 AM
Subject: [olug] D-Link DFE-530TX+ NICs and Linux?


> Has anyone used D-Link Ethernet cards with Linux? I bought  2  because I
> want  to set up a network between my Windows and Linux boxes (plus they
> were cheap with a $10  rebate  and on sale for $9.95).
>
> Here's what I want to do. If there's a how-to out there or if someone
> has already posted this question could someone please point me to the
> answers?
>
> 1. Set up my linux box to serve my M$ 98 machine and act as a fire wall
> for my cable internet connection. I know this means I have to have two
> NICs in the linux box  Has any one had any experience setting this up?
> Pointers and tips will be gratefully received!
>
> 2. Use VNC to connect to linux from Windows.
>
> Alternatively I suppose I could do it almost the opposite way and set up
> the windows box between the internet and linux box and still use VNC to
> connect to linux.
>
> Either way would be preferable to the switching situation I have now. I
> have to reboot linux if I switch the monitor, mouse and keyboard to work
> in windows because, when I switch back, the cursor or mouse pointer is
> stuck at the top of the screen in X and in the "command line screens"
> This setup is far from  ideal but if anyone has any ideas about why this
> bug is  happening I'd appreciate hearing it .I'm running red hat with
> the 2.2.6 kernel  I'm not sure what version of X
>
> Thanks!
>
> Don K.
>
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