Brad Brad Klinghagen wrote: > I'm configuring a new firewall appliance (an Acrosser AR-M9952 network > appliance/embedded PC), and it uses the RealTek RTL8100 BL NIC driver. To > try and determine what NIC driver to use, I consulted their website which > indicated that for all the various OSes, the driver for rtl8100 xL and > rtl8139 xl are the same. So based on that I thought to try either 8139cp.o > or 8139too.o (along with crc32.o and mii.o ) modules. Initially I loaded > both (8139cp and 8139too), and the system gave a message indicating to try > 8139too.o module, which is what I've done. > > > > The system goes through the boot up process fine, and it seems to load the > drivers because each of the NICs (three of them) are identified by ETH0, > ETH1, ETH2, their MAC addresses, and assigned IRQs. > > > > To assign IP addresses, ETH0 uses DHCP to pick up a static IP from my ISP, > and the other two have static IPs. DHCP never picks up the address from the > ISP, and when I try to ping any of the IP addresses from the system itself, > a message appears stating that it I entered an invalid argument.
It might help if you posted the original error along with the output of lsmod and dmesg. > > > > Is there another module I'm supposed to use (like r8169.o), or am I out of > luck. It would seem if the Realtek driver is the same for either NIC (8139 > or 8100), it would seem to me that the 8139.o module should work - but I'm > probably over simplifying things. yes, the Realtek page suggests that. They also say, that the driver is in the current kernel distribution > > > > If there isn't a driver available, do I have any options that would allow me > to use this new appliance? A quick check might be to load a current knoppix disk and see if it can use the NICs. If it can't chances are they are badly supported. I looked at the 8139too source, they reference the 8100B model, so this should work. cheers Erich ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
