Alexander Borghgraef, Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 02:12:37PM +0200: > I'm having a problem getting my on-board NIC to work with the 2.4.20 > kernel. I was using Debian with the old 2.2 kernel, under which the > network card worked fine. Then I upgraded to the 2.4.20 kernel, and > suddenly I'm unable to connect to the dhcp server. Using lilo to boot > the old kernel still works fine. > Before you ask, yes I did include the 8139 card in menuconfig. When > I run ifconfig, eth0 appears in the list alongside lo (loopback device), > but it doesn't get an IP address like it did in 2.2. Pinging the network > card (127.0.0.1) works, but that's lo I guess? Has anyone had similar > problems, and if so, how do you solve them? > I had the same problem at one point. IIRC there are two possible drivers for the 8139 chip: 8139cp and 8139too. At the time I was testing some microtel machines from Walmart. I could not get the NIC to work with several different kernels. My solution was to return the machines and vow to never touch an 8139 NIC again. g
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