[olug] Problems with setting up NICs

Mike Peterson mpeterson at charles.coxatwork.com
Fri Oct 26 19:13:12 UTC 2001


What release of Redhat or Linux distribution are you running again?

It is not included with Redhat 6.2.

It is included with Redhat 7.1
It is located in lib/modules/2.4.2-2/kernel/drivers/net
It has a date of Apr 8, 2001.
Size is 26356

The 8139too.o driver is included in Coyote Linux 1.30 and 1.31.

www.coyotelinux.com

Coyote uses the 2.2.19 kernel so the drivers could work with Redhat 6.x.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Kauffman" <dkauffman at tconl.com>
To: <olug at bstc.net>
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 9:55 AM
Subject: Re: [olug] Problems with setting up NICs


> I found a later version of the rtl8139 driver and downloaded the source.
I'll
> give  a try at  compiling that. I may be back though.
>
> Now, I wasn't able to find the 8139too.o either on the systerm or on the
net.
> Do you know where I can find it?
>
> Thanks all!
>
> Don
> Mike Peterson wrote:
>
> > The dlink cards also use 8139too and not rtl8139 for the driver.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Phil Brutsche [mailto:phil at giedi.obix.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 5:40 PM
> > To: olug at bstc.net
> > Subject: Re: [olug] Problems with setting up NICs
> >
> > Don Kauffman wrote:
> >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I've run into a problem trying to install two DLink DFE-530TX+ NICs w/
> >
> > > the RealTek Chipset rtl8139
> >
> >        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > > append="eth=0,0,eth0,eth=0,0,eth1"
> >   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> > RTL8139-based ethernet cards are PCI; the IO port and IRQ are
automatically
> > assigned by the BIOS at system boot.  The IO port and IRQ are also
> > automatically determined by the driver when it loads.
> >
> > The "append=..." line in your lilo.conf is the source of your trouble.
> > Remove it, re-run lilo, then reboot.
> >
> > The only time you need to include that line is if you're using a legacy
> > kernel (ie < 2.4.x) and/or you're using ISA ethernet cards that don't
have
> > an ISAPNP setting.
> >
> > Phil
> >
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