Re: Realtek rtl8139 nic and 2.4.20 kernel
Charles Muller(acmuller@gol.com) is reported to have said:
> Wayne Topa wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
>
> When I run lspci I get this:
>
> bash-2.05a$ lspci
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 0650 (rev 11)
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5591/5592 AGP
> 00:02.0 ISA bridge: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 85C503/5513 (rev 04)
> 00:02.3 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] OHCI Compliant FireWire Controller
> 00:02.5 IDE interface: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE]
> 00:02.6 Modem: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 7013 (rev a0)
> 00:02.7 Multimedia audio controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS7012 PCI Audio Accelerator (rev a0)
> 00:03.0 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (rev 0f)
> 00:03.1 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (rev 0f)
> 00:03.2 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 7001 (rev 0f)
> 00:03.3 USB Controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 7002
> 00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139 (rev 10)
> 00:0c.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc: Unknown device 1410
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS]: Unknown device 6325
> bash-2.05a$
>
Sorry, lspci -v or -vv 0 -vv will show increasing levels of info.
Without the -v's you don't see the IRQ. see man lspci for options.
Here is mine.
lspci -v
00:07.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1a) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID) USB Controller
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 9
I/O ports at d400 [size=32]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
00:07.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB (rev 1a) (prog-if 00 [UHCI])
Subsystem: VIA Technologies, Inc. (Wrong ID) USB Controller
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 9
I/O ports at d800 [size=32]
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RT8139
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
I/O ports at dc00 [size=256]
Memory at e6000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
>
> Should I try to install a different kernel?
Don't know because I went from 2.4.18 to 2.4.22 and don't know if
.20 had USB problems or not.
:-) HTH, YMMV, HAND :-)
Wayne
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