Re: installing a realtek 8139 lan card on 2.4.18

2009-08-17 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
steef wrote: ...AFAICT the bf24-kernel was used with woody, and, if i remember well, had during installation of the os, to choose out of a list to install the rtl-chip by hand. so,if i am right, go to the realtek website, try to find the driver and install it by and. regards,

Re: installing a realtek 8139 lan card on 2.4.18

2009-08-16 Thread steef
8139 lan card on 2.4.18 On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Sandip Sandipnew.debianu...@yahoo.in mailto:new.debianu...@yahoo.in wrote: I am trying to install a realtek 8139 lan card on an old debian machine - 2.4.18-bf2.4 The card is properly installed - as in when I connect the lan cable

Re: installing a realtek 8139 lan card on 2.4.18

2009-08-15 Thread Sandip Sandip
From: Neal Hogan nealho...@gmail.com To: Sandip Sandip new.debianu...@yahoo.in Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Thursday, 13 August, 2009 7:41:02 PM Subject: Re: installing a realtek 8139 lan card on 2.4.18 On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Sandip

Re: installing a realtek 8139 lan card on 2.4.18

2009-08-15 Thread Neal Hogan
What else have you done? Did you just plug it in? I also read up the network howto and tried things like putting eth0 in /etc/network/interfaces, trying eth0 up, etc. No use - till now. What does you system think of the card (eg, what is the output of lspci | grep Realtek of dmesg)?

Re: installing a realtek 8139 lan card on 2.4.18

2009-08-15 Thread Sandip Sandip
From: Neal Hogan nealho...@gmail.com To: Sandip Sandip new.debianu...@yahoo.in Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Saturday, 15 August, 2009 6:44:26 PM Subject: Re: installing a realtek 8139 lan card on 2.4.18 What does you system think of the card (eg

Re: installing a realtek 8139 lan card on 2.4.18

2009-08-15 Thread Neal Hogan
a realtek 8139 lan card on 2.4.18 What does you system think of the card (eg, what is the output of lspci | grep Realtek of dmesg)? What's the output of ifconfig -a? lspci shows 00:0b.0 Ethernet Controller: MYSON Technologies Inc: Unknown device 0803 (dont know from where has this MYSON come

installing a realtek 8139 lan card on 2.4.18

2009-08-13 Thread Sandip Sandip
I am trying to install a realtek 8139 lan card on an old debian machine - 2..4.18-bf2.4 The card is properly installed - as in when I connect the lan cable it the lights on the card start blinking. However, I am unable to access internet. Do I need to install drivers and how do I do that?

Re: installing a realtek 8139 lan card on 2.4.18

2009-08-13 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Sandip Sandipnew.debianu...@yahoo.in wrote: I am trying to install a realtek 8139 lan card on an old debian machine - 2.4.18-bf2.4 The card is properly installed - as in when I connect the lan cable it the lights on the card start blinking. However, I am

Re: installing a realtek 8139 lan card on 2.4.18

2009-08-13 Thread Charlie Kroeger
I am trying to install a realtek 8139 lan card on an old debian machine - 2.4.18-bf2.4 I don't like to sound the bleeding obvious but I would suspect the driver for that card might already be in a later kernel. The 2.4x kernel represents less refinement than the 2.6x kernel. -- CK -- To