On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Philip S. Tellis spake thusly:
But by default,when i do 'kudzu' this n/w card gets detected as "eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet"
RTL8139 is the chip that is used by DLink cards. Most likely you have a problem with your card. Try getting another one.
RealTek cards also use that chipset.