Realtek 8139/810x 2007.0 live-cd no internet

Kwastie · n00b Joined: 21 Jun 2008 Posts: 9

My laptop, a Fujitsu Siemens Amilio Pi 2530. Has a Realtek 8139/810x network card which for some reason doesn't want to connect to any device. It's detected normally but no connection to the Internet is made (after net-setup).

I've installed about 4 Gentoo Linux systems so far, without any serious problems.

Today I wanted to install Gentoo on my laptop. (it's has windows xp already installed, it will become a duel boot system).
But after I've boot Gentoo with the 2007.0 minimum disk, the led which should indicate my laptop is connected to the switch starts going on and off all the time. After 'net-setup eth0', nothing significant happened. Still no Internet and the led still switches on and off.

I've did some 'research' on the Internet and it looks like the kernel has some issues with getting the 8139 out of acpi mode. This was caused by windows because it was turned of. There where 2 solutions to this problem:

1. Turn on WakeOnLan function in windows.
2. Remove power for about 10 seconds. (i waited about 10 minutes and still nothing changed)

So can anyone help my with this problem ?

purak · Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 11:50 am Post subject:

Did you check lsmod output? u use this command,

Kwastie · n00b Joined: 21 Jun 2008 Posts: 9

purak · Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 3:35 pm Post subject:

Hi,

Kwastie · n00b Joined: 21 Jun 2008 Posts: 9

Yes i did read it.

But net-setup eth0 doesn't fail, it recognized my network card.
It seems like Linux somehow changed the network card's behavior because it going on and off every time, this even happens when i am NOT in Linux when i am booting Windows it still goes on and off, until the proper driver is loaded. Then it remains OK until I boot Linux again and it starts going on and off again :roll:

purak · Posted: Sat Jun 21, 2008 4:03 pm Post subject:

hımmm
Do you use a special kernel parameters on boot? For example acpi=off.. I have a laptop. If I use some parameters(acpi=off, apm=off etc), my wireless hardware switches off. Maybe you have the same problem.

Gentoo is very strange disto. I installed it under Debian Lenny. If you don't connect the internet under Gentoo, you install it under another distro. For example Ubuntu.
sorry for my english...
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Kwastie · n00b Joined: 21 Jun 2008 Posts: 9

hmm i'll try.

dragon6621 · n00b Joined: 23 May 2008 Posts: 3

Hi Kwastie,

I have exatly the same notebook as you. I don't have any problem with my ethernet controller.

The gentoo 2008.0 beta2 minimal cd recognized it well but after the first reboot I did not have any network interface except the loopback. I had to enable in the default kernel configuration (gentoo-sources 2.6.24-r7 and 2.6.24-r8 ) only the gigabit ethernet support to eliminate the problem.
(Device drivers -> Network device support -> Ethernet 1000Mbit -> Realtek 8169 gigabit ethernet support)

Since then it works fine.

Kwastie · n00b Joined: 21 Jun 2008 Posts: 9

I've found a solution to my problem. it seems the driver didn't support 100mbit ? you have to force it into 10 mbit and this works.

type:

mii-tool eth0 --force=10baseT-HD

(for some reason after forceing it into 10mbit the card is using the 8169 driver instead, like dragon6621 said

Kwastie · n00b Joined: 21 Jun 2008 Posts: 9

problem fixed, my gentoo is installed. Thanks (topic can be closed now)