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Hi John,

John Griffin wrote:

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Hey Gang,

Bringing up a new install of 7.1 on an HP Kayak XU800 with a RealTek RTL813

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NIC card.

I installed from an ftp server after selecting the RealTek RTL8129/8139 NIC kernel module during the yast1 ftp install. After the successful install SuSE rebooted and everything except the NIC came up. Which is strange since I just got done installing over that same NIC.

I supose you installed the 2.4 kernel, right?

The name for the Realtek NIC has changed in the serie 2.4.

Edit your /etc/modules.conf and change the line

alias eth0 rtl8139

to read:

alias eth0 8139too

Then run:

depmod -a

and then:

modprobe 8139too

rgrds, Bráulio Gergull