[K12OSN] Bootable floppy challenge: DFE-530TX+

Timothy Legge tlegge at rogers.com
Thu Nov 4 16:37:03 UTC 2004


On Thu, 2004-11-04 at 12:09, Richard K. Ingalls wrote:
> I had a chance to get 20 super cheap NICs, they are D-Link DFE-530TX+ , 
> Rev.E1 cards.  When I researched them online I read that I could use the 
> RTL8139 zdsk image from Rom-o-matic.net.  My problem is that the chip on 
> the card is not a RealTek chip, as I thought it would be.  The chip says 
> DL10038D.  Can anyone help me to determine the correct bootable floppy 
> image from rom-o-matic that I need to use?
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

If any of the PCs report the pc ids at boot up, look for the ids for the
nic.  Dlink cards are typically sundance (rare), rtl8139 or via-rhine.

Tim




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