RealTek 8139 Driver Installation?

[Joshua Miller]

Ok, there seems to be something more fundamentally wrong with my
configuration then, because I don't have the file
"/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1" or "/etc/sysconfig/network"
to modify.

Any ideas? When I installed YDL I got a popup that there was no ethernet
device, so setup could not continue (on that function I guess). But
neither of those files are in my system.

Any help appreciated,

Joshua Miller
josh@joshuasmiller.com


-----Original Message-----
From: yellowdog-general-admin@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
[mailto:yellowdog-general-admin@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com] On Behalf
Of Robert Serphillips
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 1:28 PM
To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Subject: Re: RealTek 8139 Driver Installation?


Use the 8139too kernel module. I believe it is not part of the default
kernel but the source is included. You may have to compile it. Second
make sure you have a device startup script for eth1 in
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1

Also change your /etc/sysconfig/network to point to eth1 as your gateway
device

-Rob

On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 10:22:33 -0400
"Joshua Miller" <josh@joshuasmiller.com> wrote:

> I've got a RealTek 8139 PCI Ethernet card in my PowerMac 6500 running 
> YDL 2.2, under the KDE control center I can see that Linux recognizes 
> the card as a Realtek 8139, but for some reason it's disabled. I found

> a source file for the card and tried to compile and install it using 
> the included methods, but I get strange errors from the gcc compiler 
> and I'll admit I know nothing about using gcc
> - I just typed the commands like the driver said and it failed, so now

> I'm lost.
>  
> Here's what the Control Center has to say aobut the card:
>  
> 00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139
>     Subsystem: Compex: Unknown device 8139
>     Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 25
>     I/O ports at 0400 [disabled]
>     Memory at 80800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [disabled]
>     Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
>  
> But I can't configure the card - I assume because of the [disabled] 
> warnings in the listing above ....
>  
> Anyone have any idea how to get this installed on YDL 2.2 ?
>  
> Thanks,
>  
> Joshua Miller
> josh@joshuasmiller.com
>  
> 
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