Hi,
I've had gentoo 2005.1 with a 2.6.15-r1 gentoo kernel installed for the past 6 months. Recently, my ethernet card conked off and after lots of testing, I was advised by my 'knowledgeable' cablenet operator to get a new one - so I did.
I've got an intex lan card with an Realtek 8139d chipset now and I got a drivers cd along with that. I tried compiling the source for the module which they've provided in that CD but was unsuccessful. I used to have a Pronet card with a Realtek 8139 chipset and that was autodetected during installation.
What I was wondering was if there is any other way to go about installing this new ethernet card and also unregister the old one; as during boot it gives an error saying that eth0 is not present or something to that effect.
I tried looking up google and forums, but couldn't find much.
Thanks in advance. Abhijeet
try using the -r7 version of the kernel... in most cases, the driver should work since the realtek 8139 is a very common chip. (not sure about the 'd' part though).
failing that, you might have to try manually compiling the kernel sources with the source provided on the cd.
what errors did you get while compiling the sources ??? did you follow the steps provided??
Ananth
On Thursday 22 June 2006 10:04, Abhijeet wrote:
I've got an intex lan card with an Realtek 8139d chipset now and I got a drivers cd along with that. I tried compiling the source for the module which they've provided in that CD but was unsuccessful. I used to have a Pronet card with a Realtek 8139 chipset and that was autodetected during installation.
8139D is a bad chipset atleast for us Linux users. I recommend people to avoid it like the plague. Anyway since you have it anyways, I would recommend trying to use NDISwrapper with windoze drivers. It works for Fedora AFAIK. Maybe it works for you too. BTW why didnt you get a Dlink? I recently got a DLink and it costed my Rs.325. It has some VIA chipset. Worked out of the box with Sarge 3.1 ;)
On Thursday 22 June 2006 11:41, Ananth A wrote:
try using the -r7 version of the kernel... in most cases, the driver should work since the realtek 8139 is a very common chip. (not sure about the 'd' part though).
The kernel works out of the box with 8139C and NOT 8139D. They are pretty different!
-
Abhijeet -
Ananth A -
Dinesh Joshi