On Fri, Feb 26, 1999 at 02:59:33PM -0600, Mike Merten wrote: > Hi, > > I have an SMC EtherEZ 10/100 PCI network card and I'm having trouble > getting it to work. I've read the Ethernet-HOWTO and Hardware-HOWTO, > both of which mention several SMC cards, but none that match this one. > It's a brand new card with a single chip marked with: > > > SMC > EN5030A > 89141T1 838k > > /proc/pci shows it as: > > SMC 1211 TX (rev 16) > > lspci shows it as: > > Accton (unknown device 1211) (rev 10) > > I've tried building all of the network drivers as modules (with > 2.2.1 kernel), but none of them detect the card at boot. I can't > translate the chip markings to any of the chipsets listed in the > Ethernet-HOWTO. Can anybody help me with this card? At this point, > even 'That card is not supported' would help. >
It may be bad form to reply to your own message, but... Searching on DejaNews, I found the solution to my problem. Seems that the SMC EtherEZ 1211 TX uses a re(mis)labeled RealTek 8139 chip. I compiled my 2.2.1 kernel with support for the rtl8139.o module. When I did 'modprobe rtl8139' the module loaded and correctly detected the card. Everything seems to be working fine now. I added 'alias eth0 rtl8139' to /etc/modutils/alias file and ran update-modules (I remember seeing somewhere that I had to do this, but can't find the reference now). Hope this helps somebody else. Mike -- Mike Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ# 28460680
