In case Gerald Butler doesn't respond, I'll add a note to this report. I
also had a problem with the Realtek 8139 network card. I moved to Debian
Sarge (kernel version 2.6.18-4-486) and the system worked perfectly.
Unfortunately for the purposes of this bug report, I no longer have
Ubuntu available
Apparently there is an upstream fix for this RTL8139 problem. I tried a
floppy-booted install of Debian Sarge (version 3.1) which recognized the
8139D just fine. That Debian distribution had trouble partitioning one
of my hard disk drives to ext3 so I created the boot, root and network
driver flopp
Installation of the the Realtek 8139 network card also fails on my
computer. I'm running the version 2.6.15-23-386 kernel (Xubuntu 6.06).
When the boot stalls at "8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27" I can get
past the hangup by removing and then reinserting the network cable. The
next message in t
This problem appears to be similar if not identical to that reported in
Bug #48456 (https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/linux-
source-2.6.15/+bug/48456).
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Clean Dapper installation hangs on 'preconfiguring networking...' / problem w.
8139too
https://launchpad.net/bugs/48305
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