Re: Realtek rtl8139 nic and 2.4.20 kernel

2003-12-29 Thread Charles Muller
Uwe Dippel wrote: > IMHO someone in here was right: module - IP - routing. We haven't had it > on routing yet. I simply have no idea how to do this. But I just found this very interesting post, which leads me to believe that the problem is unrelated to the particular device: From http://cert.uni

Re: Realtek rtl8139 nic and 2.4.20 kernel

2003-12-28 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 01:16:01 +0900, Charles Muller wrote: > I rebuilt the kernel with 8139too as a module, and now it is there where > it should be, and it has an address under its IRQ listing. But it still > won't connect. Meaning what ?? Ping ? Its own address ? Connect you to your ISP ? IMHO

Re: Realtek rtl8139 nic and 2.4.20 kernel

2003-12-28 Thread Jeff Elkins
On Sunday 28 December 2003 12:30 pm, Charles Muller wrote: >I have one more thought on the matter of trying to get my rtl8139 NIC >going on the 2.4 kernel (which may have been painfully obvious to most >of you...). I'm using the 8139too module w/o problems under 2.4.23 and 2.6.0. I don't have any

Re: Realtek rtl8139 nic and 2.4.20 kernel

2003-12-28 Thread Charles Muller
I have one more thought on the matter of trying to get my rtl8139 NIC going on the 2.4 kernel (which may have been painfully obvious to most of you...). Whenever I have tried to configure the card in 2.4 using modconf or pppoeconf, the message I always get is not a "not found" but instead "device

Re: Realtek rtl8139 nic and 2.4.20 kernel

2003-12-28 Thread Charles Muller
Uwe Dippel wrote: > > But thanks for offering your solution. I appreciate it. > > With pleasure, from my side. I'm still curious, though, what the outcome > of removing the modules with modconf, reboot, and re-insert of the rtl8139 > module would be. > >From what you wrote, it seems a Debian-only

Re: Realtek rtl8139 nic and 2.4.20 kernel

2003-12-28 Thread Bob Underwood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 27 December 2003 9:53 pm, Uwe Dippel wrote: > On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 00:23:29 +0900, Charles Muller wrote: > > I've done installations in the meantime with RH & 9, Mandrake > > 9.2, and Suse with 2.4 kernels, and they all run both the USB > >

Re: Realtek rtl8139 nic and 2.4.20 kernel

2003-12-28 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 14:35:15 +0900, Charles Muller wrote: > When I run modconf from the command line, I get a small graphic interface, > which gives me the option of installing any modules contained in a given > directory (referred to in my prior message), but no options such as > removing. Not b

Re: Realtek rtl8139 nic and 2.4.20 kernel

2003-12-27 Thread Charles Muller
On 12/28/2003, "Uwe Dippel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >With pleasure, from my side. I'm still curious, though, what the outcome >of removing the modules with modconf, reboot, and re-insert of the rtl8139 >module would be. When I run modconf from the command line, I get a small graphic interfa

Re: Realtek rtl8139 nic and 2.4.20 kernel

2003-12-27 Thread Charles Muller
Two other things that I noticed, which can be seen in the output data I posted in my prior message, but which I did not really stress: 1) a) When I do a search for 8139too, the actual module file, which is 8139too.o, was found in the directory for the 2.2 kernel. b) Since I selected the 81

Re: Realtek rtl8139 nic and 2.4.20 kernel

2003-12-27 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Sun, 28 Dec 2003 00:23:29 +0900, Charles Muller wrote: > I've done installations in the meantime with RH & 9, Mandrake 9.2, and > Suse with 2.4 kernels, and they all run both the USB mass storage and > the Realek NIC without any problem, which makes me believe that there > must be a solution to

Re: Realtek rtl8139 nic and 2.4.20 kernel

2003-12-27 Thread Charles Muller
s. keeling wrote: > Incoming from Charles Muller: > > inet addr:192.168.1.3 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > ^^ > > Interrupt:11 Base address:0x2000 > .^^^

Re: Realtek rtl8139 nic and 2.4.20 kernel

2003-12-27 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Charles Muller: > Uwe Dippel wrote: > > (with 2.2.20 kernel: network connection functioning) > > debian:/home/chuck# ifconfig eth0 > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:F5:1F:3B:BA > inet addr:192.168.1.3 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 ^

Re: Realtek rtl8139 nic and 2.4.20 kernel

2003-12-27 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 15:12:32 +0900, Charles Muller wrote: > debian:/home/chuck# ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.3 {nothing happens} > debian:/home/chuck# ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.255 {nothing happens} > > debian:/home/chuck# ping 192.168.1.3 > PING 192.168.1.3 (192.168.1.3): 56 data bytes {stops here} W

Re: Realtek rtl8139 nic and 2.4.20 kernel

2003-12-27 Thread Charles Muller
Bill Kalebaugh > If I go to to the BIOS on start-up (DELETE Button) and "Load Fail-Safe > Defaults" Debian with 2.4.xx > will ping all other boxes OK and I can go to the Internet OK. Hmmm. My BIOS setup utility doesn't seem to have these options. Is there more than one way of setting the BIOS?

Re: Realtek rtl8139 nic and 2.4.20 kernel

2003-12-27 Thread Bill Kalebaugh
SOLVED If I go to to the BIOS on start-up (DELETE Button) and "Load Fail-Safe Defaults" Debian with 2.4.xx will ping all other boxes OK and I can go to the Internet OK. All though I noticed that W2K will not start up but W-98 will. If I "Load Optimized Defaults" in BIOS than Debian 2.4.xx will

Re: Realtek rtl8139 nic and 2.4.20 kernel

2003-12-27 Thread Bill Kalebaugh
I have the exact same problem and I have tried ever thing I can think of. If you ever find an answer let me know. I am beginning to think that 2.4.xx is unable to understand all of the mother board devices I have on this board. You never said what mother board and bios you have. I have a SOYO KT40

Re: Realtek rtl8139 nic and 2.4.20 kernel

2003-12-26 Thread Charles Muller
Uwe Dippel wrote: > > unix > > af_packet > > 8139too > > module is here, good ! (Does it need mii, maybe someone could help if > necessary !?) [...] > eth0 doesn't have an address, just as I thought. And hasn't passed a > single packet so far. > > Let's try giving it an address: ifconfig eth0

Re: Realtek rtl8139 nic and 2.4.20 kernel

2003-12-26 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 01:15:05 +0900, Charles Muller wrote: > debian:/home/chuck# cat /etc/modules > # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. > # > # This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are > # to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with > # a "#",

Re: Realtek rtl8139 nic and 2.4.20 kernel

2003-12-26 Thread Charles Muller
Uwe Dippel wrote: > How about showing us your cat /etc/modules and ifconfig for a change > to the better ? These are as follows: debian:/home/chuck# cat /etc/modules # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. # # This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are # to be lo

Re: Realtek rtl8139 nic and 2.4.20 kernel

2003-12-26 Thread Uwe Dippel
On Fri, 26 Dec 2003 19:36:17 +0900, Charles Muller wrote: > and now I see this > > debian:/home/chuck# cat /proc/interrupts >CPU0 > 0: 37205 XT-PIC timer > 1:661 XT-PIC keyboard > 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade > 9: 24

Re: Realtek rtl8139 nic and 2.4.20 kernel

2003-12-26 Thread Bill Kalebaugh
s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Charles Muller: Wayne Topa wrote: Charles Muller([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: I upgraded my 2.2* Woody kernel to 2.4.20 to get support for my external USB drive. I succeeded, but in the process lost my network connection via my rtl813

Re: Realtek rtl8139 nic and 2.4.20 kernel

2003-12-26 Thread Charles Muller
Wayne Topa wrote: > Charles Muller([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > I upgraded my 2.2* Woody kernel to 2.4.20 to get support for my external > > USB drive. I succeeded, but in the process lost my network connection > > via my rtl8139 nic. The driver (8139too) was compiled, but it

Re: Realtek rtl8139 nic and 2.4.20 kernel

2003-12-26 Thread Charles Muller
s. keeling wrote: > Ummm, what? What seems to indicate they are not using the same IRQ? > The fact that they're both recognized? I believe this says nothing > other than they're both there; it's up to you to say what to do with > what was found. > > Barring *really* strange circumstances, 2.4.x

Re: Realtek rtl8139 nic and 2.4.20 kernel

2003-12-25 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Charles Muller: > Wayne Topa wrote: > > > Charles Muller([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > I upgraded my 2.2* Woody kernel to 2.4.20 to get support for my external > > > USB drive. I succeeded, but in the process lost my network connection > > > via my rtl8139 nic. T

Re: Realtek rtl8139 nic and 2.4.20 kernel

2003-12-25 Thread Wayne Topa
Charles Muller([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Wayne Topa wrote: > > > Charles Muller([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > I upgraded my 2.2* Woody kernel to 2.4.20 to get support for my external > > > USB drive. I succeeded, but in the process lost my network connecti

Re: Realtek rtl8139 nic and 2.4.20 kernel

2003-12-25 Thread Charles Muller
Wayne Topa wrote: > Charles Muller([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > I upgraded my 2.2* Woody kernel to 2.4.20 to get support for my external > > USB drive. I succeeded, but in the process lost my network connection > > via my rtl8139 nic. The driver (8139too) was compiled, but it w

Re: Realtek rtl8139 nic and 2.4.20 kernel

2003-12-25 Thread Wayne Topa
Charles Muller([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > I upgraded my 2.2* Woody kernel to 2.4.20 to get support for my external > USB drive. I succeeded, but in the process lost my network connection > via my rtl8139 nic. The driver (8139too) was compiled, but it won't > connect. > > Googli