Re: problems realtek 8139 ?

["Chris Tillman" <tillman@azstarnet.com>]

> 
>> mine works fine in a UMax C500.  I have an AOpen card using the 8139c
>> chipset.  I used the 8139too driver rather than the older realtek driver.
>> and my kernel is newer.
>>
>> Driver:
>> Apr 14 06:39:15 mojo kernel: eth0: 8139too FastEthernet driver 0.9.14-2.2
>> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
>>

Have you looked at

http://www.scyld.com/network/rtl8139.html

? The 8139too driver is a bad copy of the real driver, which was recently
updated by the author for Linux. Maybe try a fresh download from the true
source?