NIC Device not found

Forum: Networking
Topic: NIC Device not found
started by: eagle_eye

Posted by eagle_eye on Sep. 13 2004,14:13

I posted the original problem viewed by 23 people with no respond. now can someone recommend what NIC is working for them so i can get one for my system also. having prolblem with realtek 8139too. every other distro detects this card except dsl

Posted by ke4nt1 on Sep. 13 2004,14:51

Sri, eagle_eye ,
I have several boxes here with realtek 8139 network cards in them.
They all work fine for me, and are autodetected successfully.

Do you have "another" card in your box that could be conflicting?

Have you tried disabling "plug & pray" in your bios, and letting
your bios determine irq/int ?

The 8139 shares resources, so I don't see a conflict unless
you have another device that won't share..

73
ke4nt

Posted by eagle_eye on Sep. 13 2004,15:20

I only have one NIC in the box and that is the realtek 8139. when i get home i would disable the plug & play to see if that would help. getting a little frustrated with this. i have 7 more hours before i get home.

Posted by ke4nt1 on Sep. 14 2004,02:36

Here is a copy of my " lsmod " command ..
You can see my 8139too listed as my nic card ..

I never any troubles with it ..
Have you used it in another os reccently, just to make sure it works?
Does it show up in your lsmod ?

Quote

dsl@box:~$ lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
mousedev 3832 0 (unused)
hid 22372 0 (unused)
input 3168 0 [mousedev hid]
ext3 64452 1 (autoclean)
jbd 46516 1 (autoclean) [ext3]
af_packet 13544 0 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 4348 1 (autoclean)
nls_iso8859-1 2844 1 (autoclean)
ntfs 50944 0 (autoclean)
msdos 4684 0 (autoclean)
agpgart 42660 0 (unused)
es1371 30120 1
gameport 1388 0 [es1371]
ac97_codec 11916 0 [es1371]
soundcore 3428 4 [es1371]
8139too 13736 1
mii 2240 0 [8139too]
crc32 2816 0 [8139too]
parport_pc 24840 0
parport 22496 0 [parport_pc]
serial 52100 0 (autoclean)
pcmcia_core 39840 0
thermal 6564 0 (unused)
processor 8976 0 [thermal]
fan 1568 0 (unused)
button 2508 0 (unused)
battery 5888 0 (unused)
ac 1824 0 (unused)
rtc 7036 0 (autoclean)
cloop 8740 8
ieee1394 183076 0
usb-storage 61696 0 (unused)
usb-uhci 21644 0 (unused)
usbcore 57600 1 [hid usb-storage usb-uhci]
ataraid 6180 0
ide-cd 28512 0
ide-scsi 8816 0
dsl@box:~$

73
ke4nt

Posted by eagle_eye on Sep. 14 2004,16:21

Ke4nt1, thanks for your help. i did disable plug & play, wouldn't have thought that would affect anything, since slackware and redhart was running fine.
once again, thanks.