problems in installing realtek 8139 network card SOLVED

[Per-Anton Rønning]

Thank you Markku! You were 99% right. The 1% wrong comes from my lack of 
skills as a mechanic.
I am not experienced in the field of hardware (I am a terrible car 
mechanic too) so I was too lenient
and careful when I tried to put  the network card in place in its slot. 
I quite simply was afraid I'd destroy something if
I pushed too hard. But then I thought, after all the good advice I got 
on this problem from various people on this
list - had I really done something wrong in terms of intalling drivers 
etc?  In the end I concludeded that no,
that could not be it.
Markku has to have a point I thought, so I must try again, this must 
probably be a hardware thing,
maybe the card is not correctly fitted into the slot after all.
So today I closed my eyes and really pushed hard to insert the card into 
its slot, and then "click", it said.
That was it.  Now it shows up in the lspci, and it was activated as if 
nothing special had happened before.

I do not do things like this every day, so I have learnt a lot from you 
all. I  hope I can be of help to some of you
someday.
All yor mails are now stored in my knowledge base. But I am sure there 
will be more, so I think I'll
mimick Schwartzenegger : "I'll be back". Pretty soon I think. Så it's 
good to know that there are so many knowledgable people out there 
willing to share their knowledge.

Thaks again!

PA


Markku Kolkka wrote:
> If the card doesn't show up in lspci, the most likely cause of 
> your problems is that the card is broken.
>