Realtek 8139/810x PCI Network Card Issue

[Sader]

HEllo

I'm desperate for help on making the device to work
I have Arch Linux Kernel v 2.6.26

On install hw detection added two modules for my network card: 8139cp & 8139too
However none of these worked - either together or separate.
I have dualboot Vista & Arch, and in Vista device works fine by DHCP, but in Arch refuses either by DHCP or by entering static data

Pls help me

when trying to ping like www.google.com - reports: unknown host

[MikeTbob]

Hi Sader,
Welcome to Linuxforums. Can you give us the output of these commands please.

lspci | grep net

ifconfig

cat /etc/resolv.conf

[oz]

Not sure it will work, but you could try adding the following to the end of the kernel line in your menu.lst file to see if that helps:

pnpbios=off pnpacpi=off

[Sader]

Thanks for quick reply

Everything is attached here in

ifconfig.txt

lspci.txt

lsmod.txt

rc_conf.txt

resolv_conf.txt

[Sader]

Not sure it will work, but you could try adding the following to the end of the kernel line in your menu.lst file to see if that helps:

pnpbios=off pnpacpi=off

this did not help

[Sader]

Somebody......Anybody.....

[NeilJones]

No answer I'm afraid but it looks like I have the same problem.

Have you tried Knoppix on your machine. I have and it woirks under knoppix. This doesn't solve the problem of course but it does help in a way.
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/man...onnection.html

[Sader]

well, I do have eth0 with 8139too driver, but ut refuses either to connect via dhcp or by entering static details
Tried following: opensuse 10.0, DebianTesting Weekly Build, Archlinux 2008.02 - still no luck

[waterhead]

Does it work under certain kernels, but not others? I am wondering if this is a kernel bug. You could try older kernel versions and see if and when it stopped working.

If this sounds like de-bugging, well it is. The kernel is constantly being updated with new drivers and things. This has the tendency to sometimes "break' other things in the kernel. That is why I suggested trying older kernels. This may mean trying older distros, as newer ones have newer kernels.

Then again, if it won't work in SuSE 10.0, which is rather old, then my premise is most likely wrong.

[waterhead]

I was looking at the rtl8139 driver in my kernel source and came across something.

If you go to:
Device Drivers --->
Network device support --->
Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit) --->
RealTek RTL-8129/8130/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support

There is this option, which is not compiled into the kernel on my build.

[ ] Use older RX-reset method

CONFIG_8139_OLD_RX_RESET:

The 8139too driver was recently updated to contain a more rapid reset sequence, in the face of severe receive errors. This "new" RX-reset method should be adequate for all boards. But if you experience problems, you can enable this option to restore the old RX-reset behavior. If unsure, say N.

You may need to enable this, and re-compile the kernel. I wonder if the Knoppix kernel has this enabled? NeilJones, is there any way that you can check this?