Problems getting online with DFE-530tx+????

southpaw

Well if it isn't one thing it's another :roll:

Folks heres the deal;
I have an older Compaq Presario5000 which I bought a DLink DFE-530TX+ ethernet card for since it's former card was an old US Robotics NIC for which compatability appeared to be rather weak. So now after I boot up the x86 2006.0 LiveCD I seem to be having problems getting online. I check lspci only to discover that:

runningwithscissors · Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 6:15 am Post subject:

Any errors being logged?

southpaw · Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 8:22 am Post subject:

I don't believe so, after all this is what I am doing immediately after the install disc boots up....
At first I had checked my router by trying the same connection with a different desktop equipped with a Realtek RTL8139 and my laptop which uses a Broadcom BCM5705 Gigabit ethernet, still no dice. Afterwards, into the WinXP side of my HDD on the same laptop and I was able to get online without any snags, this sucks

! (go figure)
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runningwithscissors · Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 11:03 am Post subject:

I meant have you checked the logs for any errors.

Have you tried manually setting up the routes and using a static address? If that works, at least we can be sure that the driver is working as expected.

southpaw · Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 4:47 pm Post subject:

Okay, this is news...
I just tried connecting one of my desktops running WinXP, it typically uses the Linksys WMP54G wireless PCI card to access the router. Anyway, I figured I would try to upgrade the firmware on the WRT54G, but when I try to plug in my ethernet cable which connects me directly to the router, I notice at the bottom of the screen that the router gets connected and then a few seconds later it gets knocked off! For some reason it seems to keep going through this loop

. So now I've got to try and figure out what the hell is wrong with this router before I can proceed...Any ideas???
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southpaw · Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 5:46 pm Post subject:

Okay, even more peculiar...
Although there's the problem with my WinXP desktop not able to connect to my router via ethernet cable, I went ahead and tried to connect my laptop running WinXP via the same ethernet cable and it picked up the connection without any problems....Now I'm even more lost

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southpaw · Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 6:06 pm Post subject:

Okay, heres what I got on "/var/log/messages"...

runningwithscissors · Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 4:40 am Post subject:

Could be a problem with the router. Although I cannot imagine what it may be. It does not seem like a driver problem since WinXP too has problems connecting.
Did you try setting up the routes manually? Both from the WinXP box which drops the connection and the Linux machine?
Or you could try using the wireless card (which seems to work) on the Linux machine.

southpaw · Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2006 4:51 pm Post subject:

Yeah something tells me it's probably the router also, although I never used to have this problem before I moved....
Unfortunately, I already tried running Linux on the desktop with the wifi card but it seems as though it uses a Ralink chipset, which doesn't seem to be so heavily supported under *NIX/*BSD :cry:

...I think I'm just going to try picking up another router, which of course I wanted to avoid but my options are limited at this point...
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