Re: Realtek rtl8139 nic and 2.4.20 kernel

[Uwe Dippel <udippel@uniten.edu.my>]

On Sat, 27 Dec 2003 01:15:05 +0900, Charles Muller wrote:

> debian:/home/chuck# cat /etc/modules
> # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time.
> #
> # This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are
> # to be loaded at boot time, one per line.  Comments begin with
> # a "#", and everything on the line after them are ignored.
> 
> unix
> af_packet
> 8139too

module is here, good ! (Does it need mii, maybe someone could help if
necessary !?)

> debian:/home/chuck# ifconfig
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:90:F5:1F:3B:BA
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1 RX
>           packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0
>           errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0
>           txqueuelen:100
>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:11 Base
>           address:0x2000
> 
> lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1 RX packets:338
>           errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:338 errors:0
>           dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX
>           bytes:17668 (17.2 KiB)  TX bytes:17668 (17.2 KiB)
> 

eth0 doesn't have an address, just as I thought. And hasn't passed a
single packet so far.

Let's try giving it an address:

ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.200

for a starter. Probably you know which one you need ? Instead of that
192.168.1.200 ??

But even if not, you can then always 

ping 192.168.1.200

, should give you some result like

64 bytes from 192.168.1.200: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=2.2 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.200: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.7 ms,

and show some bytes under eth0 (ifconfig, see above); not 0 0 0 0 0

Then you'd know that everything is fine (except its address, eventually)


HTH,


Uwe