On Sun, 14 Jul 2002, Ian Douglas wrote:
Are you sure you're using the correct driver for your ethernet card?
No, I am not sure. It is a new PC so this is my first Linux installation on it so I may have got it wrong. The ethernet card is actually built into the motherboard. I got the "Realteck RTL8139" idea from Control Panel in Microsft Windows. I notice however from /var/log/messages it does seem to find it ok:
Jul 13 22:15:16 chocchip kernel: 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.24 Jul 13 22:15:16 chocchip kernel: eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xd4a16000, 00:10:dc:1f:95:78, IRQ 18 Jul 13 22:15:16 chocchip kernel: eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139B' Jul 13 22:15:16 chocchip kernel: eth0: Setting half-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 0000.
Do you know what chipset your motherboard is based on? If it is a SiS based board, try using the sis900 driver.
have you tried
lspci -v
This will list all devices on the PCI bus.
the output will look something like this
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Linksys Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 mod el NC100 (rev 11) Subsystem: Linksys: Unknown device 0574 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 12 I/O ports at cc00 [size=256] Memory at d8006000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K] Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=128K] Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2
00:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Winbond Electronics Corp W89C940 (rev 0b) Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 10 I/O ports at d000 [size=32] Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=32K]
There are some chips that depend on the Realtek drivers, but need extra bits as well. (Trying to name one but failing).
Thanks for your suggestions Chris. Do my above answers give you (or any other ALUG members) any ideas?.. All help is welcome as I am a bit out of my depth myself!
No problem :-)
Networks can be bastards at times.
Chris