Thus spake Jason Majors: > > my mom is (still) having trouble with a d-link 8139 dfe+ pci nic. i've > > used them on 3 pc's, with both potato and woody, and both 2.2.x and > > 2.4.x kernels. she was running a vanila potato install, with the > > 2.2.19pre1 kernel. rtl8139 (using modconf) failed to insert. she tried > > everything... different irq's, irq settings in bios and PnP. i told her > > how great they worked for me! > > so, i mailed her my woody cd #1 that i downloaded back in november. she > > now has that installed (and is very happy). it defaulted to kernel > > 2.2.19 (no pre1). her nic was autodetected, and the 8139too module was > > inserted. now, that's weird- i've never seen (or tried) 8139too on 2.2.x > > kernels. so, i had her set up her interfaces file, and networking > > restart. dhcp is giving her probs., so to rule that out (for now) i > > assigned her ip statically. the interface comes up, and she tried to > > ping herself (192.168.1.1) and gets "neighbour buffer overflow" which > > i've never seen. any thoughts? > > i've also mailed her an isa 3com. we may try that, or even a 2.4.x > > kernel. it's weird for me 'cause i never had a problem with those > > d-links, and never used 8139too with 2.2 kernels, and also never had > > that buffer error! > > > > has anyone ever seen these errors or have suggestions? > > > My friend kelly is having the same problem. We're going to try the 8139too > for him, because people on the list are suggesting it. > But I have the same card and never had to use the too on 2.2. The "neighbour buffer overflow" comes from not having the loopback interface up - `ifconfig lo up` should fix that. Don't know about the other NIC problems - I'm using a similar card with great results. Good luck, Steve -- For every problem there is one solution which is simple, neat, and wrong. -- H. L. Mencken
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