On Mon, May 20, 2002 at 10:13:04PM -0500, Donald R. Spoon wrote:
| 1. All RealTek 8139 cards that I know about are PCI cards. If yours is
| NOT a PCI card (ISA??) then I would re-check the chipset number and make
| absolutely sure that it is the correct one.
I've got a rtl8139 PCMCIA card
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
Not sure on the passing parameters, but I have four such cards.
DLink DFE-530TX+, 2 of them work fine with 2.4.x kernels, but
the two newer ones will not. And the factory supplied driver
source will not compile with 2.4.x kernels. Perhaps you are
caught with something like this. Actually there
Jonathan Matthews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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I'm guessing that, under 2.4
a) I have to use 8139too
Not necessarily... see below.
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
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