As of CentOS 4, the sundance driver is in the centosplus kernel.
I've seen strange behaviour with kudzu when using sundance with that D-Link adapter (i.e. on every bootup kudzu tells you the NICs were removed and that four new NICs were installed). That might be the issue why RH decided to disable the driver in their kernel. However, disabling kudzu solved the issue.
I use that Adapter in a Firewall-Box at one of my customer's sites and we only had one issue in the last two years: one day one of the ports suddenly stopped working. However, a reboot solved the issue.
Regards, Andreas
Am Freitag, den 03.08.2007, 22:47 +0200 schrieb Bernd Bartmann:
On 8/3/07, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
Has anyone here had any experience with D-Link's quad-port ethernet NIC, model DFE-580TX ?
The people from Mikrotik says it can cause systemwide lockup, but from what I have been reading around, this board seem to work ok.
This is the only quad-port NIC I have found with a reasonable price, so I'm seriously considering using it.
Comments ?
Neither RHEL4, RHEL5 nor CENTOS4, CENTOS5 ship the needed sundance kernel driver. I've requested the inclusion of this driver in RedHat bugzilla ages ago, but so far only got the answer that they maybe consider it for a future update release.
Anyway, you can compile the driver yourself. Be sure to install kernel-devel as this is needed to get it compiled. After installing the driver in the proper place under /lib/modules/<kernelverison>/kernel/drivers/net/ run depmod -a. Then you should be able to load the sundance.ko module.
I'm using the sundance driver on several CENTOS4/5 servers without any issues since several month.
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