On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 11:16:26AM +0000, Srdjan Todorovic wrote:
Hi,
On 13/02/2008, CDW (Linux) cdw_alug@the-walker-household.co.uk wrote:
CDW (Linux) wrote:
Way back in August of last year, I reported my connection problem.
Wayne Stallwood wrote :-
Do you know what card (or chipset) it is.
I can find that from Windows which is where I am now and it's reported as Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC. But I also did it from Linux as requested in case it was being mis-described there. It doesn't appear to be as it's shown as :- 02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
I did some google searches and found lots of people reporting the same thing. Quite a few of them and I had one thing in common, the chipset. So I binned the card, bought a D-Link gigabit card and so far touch wood, it's started first time every time.
The Realtek 8139 is one of the best cards i've used, and is very well supported. I can't believe that you would have problems due to the chipset. Could've been a damaged card (you said "it's only recently that Mandrake started failing to connect"). Shame you had to throw such a cool card in the bin, though.
Yes, I've used 8139 based cards for quite a while with no issues at all, in fact I think my current Linux box has an 8139 card in it.
There were issues with the early drivers if I remember correctly (quickly looks at his notes on installation....) .... ah, no, that was the Realtek 8168 on-board chipset. It must have been an older system that had the 8139.