Realtek 8139

gsfgf · Veteran Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 1266

I have an Realtek 8139 based pcmcia netcard. (Cnet CNF401). When i modprobe 8139too (alst tried 8139cp) i get this output.

FINITE · Guru Joined: 10 May 2002 Posts: 449

Disable pnp os in the bios. That should take care of it.

gsfgf · Veteran Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 1266

WOW, fast reply.
I did that and got the same error.

FINITE · Guru Joined: 10 May 2002 Posts: 449

Reseat the nic. Take it out and put it back in that is

gsfgf · Veteran Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 1266

OK I noticed 2 things:
1) cardmgr says its an unsupported card.
2) modprobe 8139too now also gives this error 8139too: region #1 is not a MIMO resource error, aborting

dice · Guru Joined: 21 Apr 2002 Posts: 577

I don't know how to fix your problem, but I want to bitch about RealTek

I was working at this company and we bought 20 2U machines for a cluster, they all had RealTek NICs in them. Over the course of 6 months EVERY SINGLE NIC DIED. As each one went out I replaced it with a 3c905 and never had problems with 'em again. That's why I hate RealTek

FINITE · Guru Joined: 10 May 2002 Posts: 449

Uhhh, is this a laptop? If so then I have no idea. Try reseating and see what happens though. Isn't there an option in the compilation of the kernel to enable pcmcia support? Did you enable it when you compiled the kernel?

phaze3k · n00b Joined: 24 Apr 2002 Posts: 36

Do you have PCMCIA support compiled into the kernel, are you using pcmcia-cs or what? If neither, there's your problem..

As for the guy slagging off Realtek NICs: Realtek don't make NICs, they make chipsets that are used on NICs. Your company probably bought some cheap-arsed 10/100 clone cards that used a Realtek chipset for $3 a piece, hence the unreliability.

I'll agree that the 3C905 is a better card than any clone though..

katakombi · n00b Joined: 03 May 2002 Posts: 27

i remember of three different modules in different kernel versions.
The newest is still experimental, the old one does support 10MBit only.
Maybe you need to downgrade your kernel, but it'd be worth a try..

gsfgf · Veteran Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 1266

I am installing. To configure it i did this:

gsfgf · Veteran Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 1266

I installed from a stage 3 tarball. I configureed the card in the kernel and now modprobe 8139too works. However dhcpcd just outputs:

gsfgf · Veteran Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 1266

I found the driver source(ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/rtl8139.c). However when i try to compile it it can't find dependecies.

gsfgf · Veteran Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 1266

I got the pcnet driver working

BradN · Posted: Sun May 19, 2002 3:15 am Post subject:

Are you sure the dhcp server is working right? It claims it's getting a response, so that suggests the card is working to some extent. You should borrow a different card (or try another computer with gentoo) and see if it works if you haven't already.

Also try it without the cable plugged in... if it still does the same thing, then I would assume the card isn't working.

gsfgf · Veteran Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 1266

My only other gentoo box has a dead HDD, so i can't test w/ gentoo, but it was working until then and I haven't done anything to the DHCP server. The Win2000 boxes on the network still work.

W/ tha cale unplugged all i get is a timed out message, no response recieved. So I guess the card is sorta working.

BradN · Posted: Mon May 20, 2002 1:09 am Post subject:

hmm... perhaps you can test dhcp on the broken hard drive computer just running off the CD? You can start the network without having to copy to the hard drive. I don't really think this is the problem, but have you tried different cables / different port on a hub?

gsfgf · Veteran Joined: 08 May 2002 Posts: 1266

I booted the dead box and same problem. So i restarted my router and its working.

Thanks a lot

BradN · Posted: Mon May 20, 2002 5:32 am Post subject:

The unexpected problems are always the hardest to troubleshoot