Anyone using this Gigabit NIC with Red Hat ES 3?

[Steven E. Protter]

http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=284

DGE-530T

Commentary and jokes will always get some points.

The bunny comes if:
1) You actually have the card in a Red Hat ES 3 machine.
2) You tell me what you did to make it work or that it didn't work.

3) IF you have two of them and provide a procedure for bonding and getting two cards to act as one IP address.

The card is not on Red Hats list.

I have contacted the company and asked their engineers to answer this question. I've also asked for an evauluation unit to test.

If you have it and it works i need to know if its connecting at 1000 BaseT speeds.

Same information for Red Hat 9 is also worth a bunny.

SEP

[Stuart Browne · Accepted solution]

Argh! my post didn't post!

Anyway, what I did type (if I can remember all of it)...

I've not used that card, but all the documentation I read points to it working properly using the 'sk98lin' driver.

The /boot/config-2.4.21-9.0.1.ELsmp shows that it's supposed to be compiled in as a module, but I can't find the module installed anywhere.

The sk98lin driver suitable for this card has been included in the stock kernel since 2.4.18, and a version 6.x is required.

The current version, available from http://www.syskonnect.com/syskonnect/support/driver/htm/sk98lin.htm is 6.24. The instructions are there on how to compile it.

[Steven E. Protter]

All right Stuart,

Research that is THAT good gets solution level pointage.

This thread is OPEN though.

I still want to hear from someone who'se used it.

SEP

[Olivier Drouin]

hmmm...the nice random things we get off ebay

[Stuart Browne]

I take it you've read about that english girl who auctioned off her virginity recently? :) Rosie Reid was her name from memory. £8,400 or some such.

The world is full of freaks.. *blink*