BeOS and DLink 538TX PCI NIC <- Help?

[RSI]

Someone please shed some light? 😀

 

[RSI]

Tried reinstalling BeOS, didn't work... I get the two ISA cards as options... yet my card is PCI.. what gives? If it would let me choose the PCI ones I'm sure it would work! wtf? 🙁

 

[pyr]

if the chipset on the card is not supported you wont get it to work. the cards it lets you select are the 'if you are screwed try these as a last resort' options. if it is supported, try setting Non PnP OS in the BIOS and try to hard select the IRQ the card uses in the BIOS.

 

[Wizkid]

The weird thing is, his card seems to be based on the same chipset as mine, but mine works and his doesn't. I have a DLink 530TX+ which uses the Realtek 8139 Chipset, and so does his (at least that's what the win2k drivers said).

My guess is that the rtl8139 drivers in BeOS don't recoginize his cards PNP codes (or whatever they are) and thus doesn't load the correct drivers. Is there any way to &quot;add&quot; those codes to the driver included with BeOS to make it work? 🙂

 

[RSI]

I have nonpnp OS in bios already... hmm would selecting irq manually help at all?

 

[M]

Are you booting off the boot disk/off Be's own partition?

It's quite common for people to have issues with hardware, particularly network cards, when booting from 9x/DOS. Win9x has serious trouble letting go of hardware resources.

I'd really suggest everyone playing with BeOS take a look at the BeOS Tip Server, it's a really fantastic resource, with listings for most common, and some mroe obscure Be problems. (as well as some particularly cool tweaks..)

 

[pyr]

manually set the IRQ in the BIOS and that should help