Realtek 8139c - Distro recommendation

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I would like a recommendation for a distro that works perfectly with the Realtek 8139c card without any terminal commands or editing any files. Neither Ubuntu nor opensuse nor Mandriva doesn't offer any kind of Internet connection with this card.

I would like a distro that when installed, to have absolutely NO PROBLEM with the Internet connection.

Does anybody know one ?

[i92guboj]

I would like a recommendation for a distro that works perfectly with the Realtek 8139c card without any terminal commands or editing any files. Neither Ubuntu nor opensuse nor Mandriva doesn't offer any kind of Internet connection with this card.

I would like a distro that when installed, to have absolutely NO PROBLEM with the Internet connection.

Does anybody know one ?

This (and to tell the truth, 99%) of the 10/100 wired NIC adapters, work without any glitch under linux, as long as you have the relevant driver in your kernel. I don't know how the distros you named handle that, but since they are just binary distros, your kernel will usually ship all the drivers as external modules. So, a simple "modprobe 8139cp" as root (or just "sudo modprobe 8139cp" under some other distros like ubuntu), will wake up your card. You can also use "lsmod" to see if the modules has been loaded by the os (in which case you don't need to load it).

But even if the driver is loaded automatically (and I bet that most distros amongst those you named do that), you will need to configure your net for it to work conveniently. You even need to do that in windows (independently of the level of automatism of the process). If you really don't want to learn even to hit a few keys, I can't help.

Note that, even if the distro is more graphical, just like in Windows, you still need to set your ip and all the few things that allow your OS to access internet though your ISP. If you are afraid of the command line there might be distros that have graphical assistants to configure these things. But even then, if you don't want to bother, then you have only two options: to pay a technician, or suffer a bit and learn something new, provided you have the time to do so.

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Thank you. For some reasons, the thing I had to do was to enable Wake-On-Lan from BIOS. Now, all the distros I tested work !

[MikeTbob]

Glad you got it working. I have the same chipset in my Ethernet card, and I haven't found a single Distro that didn't work with it. Nor have I found a single Distro that I didn't have to configure either.

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Can you tell me all the distros that worked successfully with it ? I wanna know what to download when I'll try another one.

[MikeTbob]

Can you tell me all the distros that worked successfully with it ? I wanna know what to download when I'll try another one.

For me, Fedora 4 through 7, Ubuntu Feisty, Gentoo, Sabayon, Knoppix, Mepis, CentOS, I'm sure I am missing a few, but the thing is, they all should work just fine.

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Thanks a lot!

Just one more question. What program should I use in Ubuntu to burn an ISO image easily ?

[MikeTbob]

I usually use K3b, but Gnome has CD Burning software too.

[i92guboj]

For me, Fedora 4 through 7, Ubuntu Feisty, Gentoo, Sabayon, Knoppix, Mepis, CentOS, I'm sure I am missing a few, but the thing is, they all should work just fine.

As I said above, this is a driver that belongs to the linux kernel. Since all the linux distros use the linux kernel (strange, I know) they all support that card as you say.

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I love Ubuntu, but I've got a little problem: I have an old GeForce4 MX440 and I'm using the restricted nVidia
drivers but the desktop and all the windows and applications are rendering and scrolling very very slow as like I'm not using any drivers at all! Does anyone know how can I make sure that these drivers are loaded and working properly ?