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The D-Link DHP-307AV powerline kit is simpler than Prince Harry’s wordsearch collection. It contains two little white boxes that plug into your mains electrical sockets. You connect one to your broadband router, and the other to a device somewhere in your house that wants to talk to the Internet. And that’s it. The Internets then stream all over your home mains system without the need to mess about with dreadful Wi-Fi or messy cabling.

D-Link’s hardware is very smart. The pure white that has recently been eluding Apple is used for these adaptors, and looks good as well as helping them fit, stylistically, with your mains sockets. There’s a simple button on the side that initiates the encryption between two of these adaptors. You shouldn’t even need to use this, as they should work together out of the box. There’s also an Ethernet jack on the side, which is fine, but we’d prefer it on the bottom.

All of which sounds perfect, until you encounter some of the problems powerline networks typically have. Firstly, you have to be careful which manufacturer’s products you buy. There are a couple of competing systems that simply don’t work with each other. Even within the same standards, there are different devices that don’t work with each other.

There’s also an issue with your home wiring setup too. Powerline systems can’t work on sockets that have any filtering built in and they aren’t at their best on extension leads either. You’ll also run into problems if your home wiring is old — this will reduce the throughput speed you’ll see.

Make no mistake: despite its problems, power lines is a great way to network devices that would otherwise be difficult to get online. It is also for things that do not require an unprecedented particularly high speed. If you are in a newly built house, or at home has new electrical wiring, you’ll see a fairly decent speed anyway.

Expect to spend about 85 of those little adapter. Almost all you need is in the box and can manage in a few minutes. You can use other types of cards if you know what is useful if you have many devices around your house want to add, should the Internet.

Tags: Broadband Router, DHP-307AV, PowerLine, Wi-Fi

This article teaches you how to assign an IP address to the data ports of the D-Link SAN.

Step 1: Access the SAN through the GUI by typing the Management Port IP of the SAN into a web browser and log into the unit.

Once you have logged in Select Network Settings in the left windows pane, select and right-click on the Ethernet Port that needs a portal IP address and and Create Portal.

Step 2: Enter in the desired IP address, Subnet Mask and Gateway. Click OK after.

Step 3: The Ethernet Port you just modified should now show up as Online and active in Green.

Tags: data ports, IP address, SAN

This guide teaches you How to create a Volume in the D-Link SAN(DSN-1100 as an example)

Step 1: Access the SAN by typing in the Management Port IP of the SAN into a web browser. Click on the Click Here link to run the xStack Storage now.

Step 2: Log into the SAN.

Step 3: Once you have logged in, click on the Volume Creation Wizard link located in the left window pane.

Step 4: The create Volume Wizard will pop open. Click on Next.

Step 5: Create a Name for the volume. You will have the option to configure the volume to your specific needs. In this example we will select “Help me choose the best volume organization”.

Step 6: Click Next to Walk me through the choices…

Step 7: If the Data is very Important we will select Very Important.

Step 8: Click Next for Complete Copy.

Step 9: Select No if you want to use the fewest drives possible.

Step 10: Select the desired size of the volume and click Next.

Step 11: If you have an Initiator currently active you can Specify and select a certain Initiator or Grant access to an Initiator not on the list, or even Grant access to ALL initiators. Click Next.

Step 12: Click Finish and Close.

Tags: DSN-1100, SAN, storage, Volume, xStack

1.install the DFE-530TX+ network adapter in MAC OSX

Step 1 Power down the computer and disconnect the power cable.

Step 2 Remove the left side panel of the case.

Step 3 Insert the DFE-530TX+ into an available PCI slot and tighten the screw until the DFE-530TX+ is securely in place.

Step 4 Replace the side panel and turn computer on.

Step 5 Insert the DFE-530TX+ installation CD into the CD-ROM drive.

Step 6 Open the CD-ROM icon on the desktop that appears displaying DFE-530TX+ just below the icon.

Step 7 Open the Macintosh folder.

Step 8 Open the DFE-530TX+ driver for MAC OS.

Step 9 Open the installer program.

Step 10 Click on install to complete the installation process.

2.install the DFE-530TX+ network adapter in Linux Red Hat

Note: New Distributions of Linux support this card with built-in drivers and near auto-installation.

Follow these instructions to install the DFE-530TX+ Rev. D1 and D2 in Red Hat 6.x.

The Readme.txt file has excellent instructions for more advanced users in Red Hat 6.x and up.

For novice users, the following step-by-step instructions should suffice, assuming the floppy is mounted.

$ cd floppy
$ cp rtl8139.c /root(or any temp directory)
$ cd /root
$ gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c rtl8139.c `[ -f /usr/include/linux/modversions.h ] && echo -DMODVERSIONS`

[Enter]

$ insmod rtl8139.o

At this point the drivers have been installed and inserted. Configure the network properties of the card according to your current network settings.

For Red Hat 7.0 the install is a little trickier because of a known issue with the default install of the OS.

The workaround is as follows:

First, you must change the following file: /usr/include/linux/modversions.h Using any text editor such as PICO or vi, insert the following line into this file:

#include linux/modsetver.h

Then continue with the compilation and install:

cd floppy
cp rtl8139.c /root(or any temp directory)
cd /root
gcc -I /usr/src/linux/include -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c rtl8139.c `[ -f /usr/include/linux/modversions.h ] && echo -DMODVERSIONS`

[Enter]

insmod rtl8139.o

Tags: DFE-530TX, mac osx, network adapter, red hat 7

The cable included with your NIC is a WOL or Wake On LAN cable. Wake on LAN is an optional feature of the card and is not required for the NIC to function properly. Some new motherboards do not need the WOL cable for Wake on LAN to work. The support is built into the PCI slot, and in this case the customer will have to reference the motherboard manual or manufacturer´s website for setup information.

Both ends of the three wire cable are not the same. The connector with the large key way will connect to the motherboard, and the smaller connector will connect to the NIC. To use this optional feature you will need to have additional software installed on your computer such as Magic Packet.

What is Wake On LAN?

Wake On LAN provides remote wake-up technology which enables systems to be remotely powered “on” for off hours tasks. A result of the Intel-IBM Advanced Manageability Alliance and part of the Wired for Management Baseline Specification, this technology helps save time on automated software installations, upgrades, disk backups and virus scans. Wake on LAN technology resides in a managed network adapter and on the system motherboard.

Which of D-Link´s network adapters support the Wake-On-Lan function?

D-Link now has five NICs that support WOL:

Tags: adapter, Wake On LAN, WOL, wol cable