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Cryogen Glacien
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 Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 8:11 am Post subject: Which Driver for StarTech ST100S NIC? [SOLVED] |
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I recently bought one of the aforementioned NICs to use as eth1 in a small home network. According to what I've read it's based on the Realtek 8139D chipset, but I've tried both Realtek drivers in the kernel and have not been having any luck. The card is recognized as being physically present, but ifconfig eth1 yields
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eth1 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr [MAC address removed]
inet addr:192.168.0.1 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:19 dropped:19 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
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Is there another driver I should be using? That UNSPEC line is worrying me, and I haven't been able to get the card communicating with my laptop's eth0.
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Sun Jul 10, 2005 8:59 am Post subject: |
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Cryogen Glacien,
Please post some lspci output for the card.
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Cryogen Glacien
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Um, I'm not sure what I did but the problem seems to have disappeared. I changed the kernel from 2.6.12-ck2 to 2.6.12-ck3 and its "best-guess" was that both 8139too and 8139cp should be compiled right into the kernel. I let it try that, and the UNSPEC error disappeared. The laptop can now pull an IP address via DHCP from this box...now to setup Masquerading and NAT via webmon...
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