Bráulio Weimann Gergull wrote:
Hi John,
John Griffin wrote:
Hey Gang,
Bringing up a new install of 7.1 on an HP Kayak XU800 with a RealTek RTL8139 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 module has changed in the kernel series 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
"ifconfig eth0" should be working now.
I have the same card and kernel 2.4.2. As I noted in a post an hour or so ago, I had the 8139too driver working satisfactorily under kernel 2.4.0, which confirms the main point of your message. But after updating my kernel from 2.4.0 to 2.4.2, that driver doesn't work; insmod gives a "device not found" message when it's called either from the bootup script or independently. I'm still wrestling with that problem and getting nowhere. Paul Abrahams