I've got a known-good (well, known-crap-but-known-to-work) Realtek 8139 based NIC that is absolutely fine under kernel 2.2, with the rtl8139 driver, but hangs the box solid if 8139too is used, under 2.2 /or/ 2.4.
Not a problem under 2.2, as I've just been using rtl8139, but that driver doesn't seem to be available for 2.4 in the vanilla kernel.org 2.4.18. I'm guessing that, under 2.4 a) I have to use 8139too Since the hang occurs at boot immediately after "Configuring network interfaces: " with no errors reported: b) it's the driver's probing of other io addresses that's causing the hang. Note that (b) is, of course, very probably, wrong. So, to cut to the chase: how do I pass the io and irq values to the driver? Please note that I'm aware of having (after an update-modules) the two lines alias eth0 8139too options 8139too io=0xe00 irq=12 in /etc/modules.conf and also the line append="ether=12,0xe00,eth0" in /etc/lilo.conf. Neither one appears to do much good. Any 8139too-under-2.4 users out there able to lend a hand? cheers! jc -- It may stop, it may not. And stop calling me "dj". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
