Re: Realtek rtl8139 nic and 2.4.20 kernel
Charles Muller(acmuller@gol.com) is reported to have said:
> I upgraded my 2.2* Woody kernel to 2.4.20 to get support for my external
> USB drive. I succeeded, but in the process lost my network connection
> via my rtl8139 nic. The driver (8139too) was compiled, but it won't
> connect.
>
> Googling, I found a number of threads on this, going back as far as
> March, but AFAICT, none of the threads ends up with a solution to the
> problem. It was suggested in one thread that I add
>
> append="noacip"
>
> to my lilo.conf, but this does not do the trick. Has anyone heard of
> a fix for this?
>
Had the same problem until I ras lspci and noticed the USB controller
was using the same IRQ as my NIC. Changing IRQ's fixed it.
:-) HTH, YMMV, HAND :-)
Wayne
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