I had a problem with a laptop rtl8139 card where the driver saw the card fine and eth0 even came up, but it would not transmit or receive any packets.
The problem was that I had APIC support on in the kernel. As soon as I turned it off, the interrupt setting in /proc/interrupts went to XT-PIC and it started working... On Sat, 2002-08-03 at 03:46, Markus Olsson wrote: > On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 14:36, guran wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am setting up a firewall based by Debian 3.0 Woody and an old Pentium 133 > > with two rtl8139 NIC's. > > > > Please notice that these are my observations from a 'top-down' perspective. > > > > Only the first card was fully installed as eth0. After fruitless attempts I > > installed Slackware 8.1 which detected the cards as rtl8139 and rtl8139-e > > (from memory). It too wrote about irq conflicts. > > I reinstalled Woody based on the eth1 card and everything was fine. Then I > > reinstalled with both the cards and found the irq conflict in the dmesg > > file. > > > > I have now switched the eth1 card to one on via-rhine so I may be on my way. > > > > Is it possible that the detection algoritm is confused by not two equal > > responses of rtl8139? It ought to be possible to use two equal cards based > > on > > the different card positions. > > > > regards > > guran > > -- > > Mandrake Linux 8.2 > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > actually i'm also having kind of a problem with 2 rtl8139's. Everything > worked fine until I did an apt-get upgrade a couple of days ago. Now my > ethernet-card that's connected to the DSL modem is having som major > problems getting an IP from the DHCP. At first I thought that dhclient > was buggy so I tried pump but that didn't work either. You have to try > to update the DHCP a numerous times until it gets an IP. > > This is not very funny.. > > Anyone know anything that might have gone wrong? I've tried with a > kernel that i can guarantee worked for 3-4 weeks ago. I'd be very > grateful for help. > > > -- > :: Markus Olsson > :: System-administrator Arvikafestivalen, Galaxen > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
