OT: Realtek 8139 hangs after dhcp at startup

[Bob Chiodini]

On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 21:49, Ben Vitale wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> This problem seems unrelated to the Fedora OS itself.
> 
> Upon startup, after the memory test, when my Realtek 8139 ethernet card 
> initializes (?), I see the following:
> 
>   Realtek 8139A/B/C / RTL8130 PCI Fast Ethernet Controller v2.11 (001205)
>   Client Mac Address: ......         GUID: .......
>   Client IP: ......      Mask: .....   DHCP IP: .......
>   Gateway IP: .....
> 
> All the addresses/values that display are correct.  But then it stops. 
> And hangs (indefinitely, far as I can tell).  If I start the machine 
> with the ethernet cable unplugged, it bypasses this situation 
> completely, after which I can plug in the ethernet cable and eth0 comes 
> up with no issue in FC2.
> 
> This problem only recently started occurring when I got Comcast for 
> Internet.  I had no such problems with my LAN at school.  I couldn't 
> find anything in the BIOS to somehow disable this media check upon startup.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ben

Ben,

This is a sort of me too reply.

I also have a 8139 card (dlink DFE-530+, I think).  When connected to a
Linksys Router, sometimes the interface failed to start, but always
failed to stop at shutdown.  A tulip based card did not exhibit the any
problems.

With a dlink router the 8139 card always works.  The tulip card worked
with either router.

Moral of the story:  Go buy another (non 8139-based) NIC.  The 8139
cards are slow and generally suck.

Bob...


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