RealTek 8139 Driver Installation?

[Robert Serphillips]

That would be a problem then. Post the output of dmesg. If the card is
recognized then it is just a matter of setting up those scripts to
bring up the interface during boot. I think there is a menu entry to
set up networking. Try that. 

-Rob


On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 16:33:42 -0400
"Joshua Miller" <josh@joshuasmiller.com> wrote:

> 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-----
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> 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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