D-Link DGE-530T - Drivers not present in 12.04?

[iraiam]

I'm trying to install a D-Link DGE-530T Gigabit NIC in my Ubuntu 12.04 system, Apparently I read some bad information that said the drivers for this card were already in 12.04.

I have also ran into conflicting information as to what module covers this device. modprobe outputs below.

ira@MEDIACENTER:~$ modprobe sk98lin
FATAL: Module sk98lin not found.
ira@MEDIACENTER:~$

ira@MEDIACENTER:~$ modprobe sk
FATAL: Module sk not found.
ira@MEDIACENTER:~$

ira@MEDIACENTER:~$ modprobe skge
FATAL: Error inserting skge (/lib/modules/3.2.0-56-generic/kernel/drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/skge.ko): Operation not permitted
ira@MEDIACENTER:~$

I think it is actually sk based on this http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/....4freebsd.html

The new NIC is apparently not being detected at all

Listed is the 10/100 interface on the motherboard and nothing else.

ira@MEDIACENTER:~$ ifconfig -a | grep eth
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:e0:4d:bd:a1:1c

I'm not sure what to do next mostly because I don't know which driver package I need to compile (if any)

anyone can point me in the right direction, I would appreciate it.

[iraiam]

Just for grins I installed the DGE-530T in my T7600 to make sure it does in fact work, it does. (Win 7 Pro)

I tried to make the Linux drivers that came on the CD, there are problems with it, the drivers are stated as being for kernel 2.4x 2.6x, I got many warnings and a few errors, the make process failed horribly.

I'll have to go though and check each error and see if I can resolve due to missing libraries or some such, but it's becoming more trouble than it's worth, I haven't done a compile is a few years due to my work increasingly being done in another OS.

[Yellow Pasque]

Try installing the 3.8 lts-raring-kernel

[Bucky Ball]

Thread moved to Networking & Wireless.

[iraiam]

Try installing the 3.8 lts-raring-kernel

Good call, that got it working. Thanks much.

I'll nose around and figure out which package(s) the thing actually uses.

[Bucky Ball]

Simple:

sudo lshw -C network

You will see the drivers, firmware, etc. down the bottom of the output for the network controller.

Please mark this thread as 'solved' to help others. Thanks. Post a new thread for any further issue.

[iraiam]

At one time I thought that the r8169 driver was what I needed, but changed my mind after further reading. Oh well it's working with the r8169 driver so it must be the right one.

*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: DGE-530T Gigabit Ethernet Adapter (rev.C1) [Realtek RTL8169]
vendor: D-Link System Inc
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:04:02.0
logical name: eth1
version: 10
serial: d8:fe:e3:38:d7:a4
size: 1Gbit/s
capacity: 1Gbit/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=r8169 driverversion=2.3LK-NAPI duplex=full ip=192.168.0.28 latency=64 link=yes maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 multicast=yes port=MII speed=1Gbit/s
resources: irq:17 ioport:e800(size=256) memory:febffc00-febffcff memory:febc0000-febdffff

Both interfaces are listed now

ira@MEDIACENTER:~$ ifconfig -a | grep eth
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:e0:4d:bd:a1:1c
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr d8:fe:e3:38:d7:a4

[iraiam]

Additionally, I got it working in 3.2 kernel.

ira@MEDIACENTER:~$sudo modprobe r8169
ira@MEDIACENTER:~$

After a reboot the NIC functions fine.

[Bucky Ball]

Great news.