Hi Ben and Jeff,

Thank you both for the great info!  I will definitely
go forward with my project of creating a small web
server out of an old Pentium PC.  However, I have also
been looking to see if the D-Link card is backward
compatible with PCI 2.0, because that is what the old
PC has.  I have checked on the D-link site and on the
box, which only states it is 2.2 compliant.  Do either
of you might know if the card is backward compatible?

Thanks again,
J Silverman
--- collver1@comcast.net wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I use a lot of DFE-530TX+'s at home because I bought
> some on sale.  They
> work just fine.  However you wouldn't want to use
> them in a busy server
> because there may be performance issues with that
> realtek chipset.
> 
> rtk0 at pci0 dev 10 function 0: D-Link Systems DFE
> 530TX+
> rtk0: interrupting at irq 9
> rtk0: Ethernet address XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
> ukphy0 at rtk0 phy 7: Generic IEEE 802.3u media
> interface
> ukphy0: OUI 0x000000, model 0x0000, rev. 0
> ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX,
> 100baseTX-FDX, auto
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Ben
>
--- Jeffrey Bedard <jefbed@e-list.net> wrote:
> Hello
> 
> This card works perfectly on my NetBSD box.  To get
> it working, add ifconfig_rtk0="<your ip addr>" to
> your rc.conf.  On my GNU/Linux box, though, it
> appears that there is bug with this card (more
> likely hardware (cheap mobo from emachines) than
> software)).  The card crashes after a day or so of
> uptime (the light on the card remains blinking and
> connection is lost), and is only fixable by
> unplugging the machine.  I would like you to be
> aware that this is a possible problem you may face
> with this card, especially with flakey hardware.
> 
> -Jeff

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