problems in installing realtek 8139 network card

Per-Anton Rønning pa-ronn at online.no
Sat Sep 16 16:08:25 UTC 2006


lspci gives:
/snip
02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8001 
Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 13)
\snip
i.e. only the card configured as eth0
No reference to realtek.

lsmod gives:
8139cp                 25793  0
8139too                29761  0
skge                   39505  0 (this is the driver for eth0)

this is the contents of modprobe.conf:
alias eth0 skge
alias scsi_hostadapter ata_piix
alias snd-card-0 snd-intel8x0
options snd-card-0 index=0 
options snd-intel8x0 index=0 
remove snd-intel8x0 { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; 
}; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-intel8x0
alias eth1 8139cp

(I did try to alias to 8139too earlier, same result)

PA

Charles Curley wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 05:19:31PM +0200, Per-Anton Rønning wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>> I have 2 network cards in my FC5 computer, eth0 connects to cable 
>> bradband internet and works just fine,
>> but eth1 seems to be impossible to get up nd running.
>>
>> There are 2 driver modules for this card on the system, i.e. 8139cp and 
>> 8139too, and I have tried both, (not simoultaniously of course) by 
>>     
>
> Perhaps that's your mistake; see below.
>
>   
>> aliasing eth1 to one or the other in /etc/modprobe.conf.
>> In trying to activate it (running neat) I get this message:
>> "8139cp device eth1 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization."
>> In the hardware list in "NEW" (in  neat)I find (and have used)
>> RealTek RTL8129 Fast Ethernet
>> Perhaps this is the problem - the hardware spec is too old while the 
>> driver spec is correct ..? (the "guide" on the accompanying floppy 
>> specifies 8139)
>> Anyone in the loop on this one?
>>     
>
> I have the following (from lspci):
>
> 00:13.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139 C+ (rev 10)
>
> This is a built in controller rather than a separate card, but that
> should not affect matters.
>
> lsmod shows, among others:
>
> 8139too                25409  0
> 8139cp                 21185  0
> mii                     5313  2 8139too,8139cp
>
> I don't know how neat does things. You might try
>
> modprobe 8139too
> modprobe 8139cp
> lsmod
>
> to make sure everything is being installed.
>
> Then run ifconfig to make sure the NIC shows up.
>
> My modprobe.conf has, in part:
>
> alias eth0 8139too
>
>
>
>   




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