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Re: Realtek rtl8139 nic and 2.4.20 kernel

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If I go to to the BIOS on start-up (DELETE Button) and "Load Fail-Safe Defaults" Debian with 2.4.xx will ping all other boxes OK and I can go to the Internet OK. All though I noticed that W2K will not 
start up but W-98 will.
If I "Load Optimized Defaults" in BIOS than Debian 2.4.xx will not ping other boxes and you can not get on the Internet. W2K will run OK and Debian 2.2.20 will ping other boxes and go on the Internet. Also Suse 8.2 with 2.4.xx will ping all boxes and go on the Internet with the same .config for 2.4.xx as on the 
the Debian 2.4.xx.

I hope this helps.

Bill K

Bill Kalebaugh wrote:


I have the exact same problem and I have tried ever thing I can think of.
If you ever find an answer let me know. I am beginning to think that 2.4.xx is unable to understand all of the mother board devices I have on this board. 
You never said what mother board and bios you have.
I have a SOYO KT400 Ultra with a Phoenix BIOS.

Good Luck
Bill K

Charles Muller wrote:


Uwe Dippel wrote:


unix
af_packet
8139too


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

But even if not, you can then always
ping 192.168.1.200



I first ran these tests under my 2.2 kernel (where the network card is
working), and then ran them under the 2.4 kernel, where it isn't
working. Here is what I got:

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(with 2.2.20 kernel: network connection functioning)

debian:/home/chuck# ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:F5:1F:3B:BA inet addr:192.168.1.3 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 
         UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
         RX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
         TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:1240 (1.2 KiB) TX bytes:684 (684.0 b) 
         Interrupt:11
debian:/home/chuck# ping 192.168.1.3
PING 192.168.1.3 (192.168.1.3): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.1.3: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.0 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.3: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.0 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.3: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.0 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.3: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=0.0 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.3: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=0.0 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.3: icmp_seq=5 ttl=255 time=0.0 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.3: icmp_seq=6 ttl=255 time=0.0 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.3: icmp_seq=7 ttl=255 time=0.0 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.3: icmp_seq=8 ttl=255 time=0.0 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.1.3: icmp_seq=9 ttl=255 time=0.0 ms

--------------------------------------------

(under 2.4.18 kernel: no connection) debian:/home/chuck# ifconfig eth0
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
debian:/home/chuck# ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.3  {nothing happens}
debian:/home/chuck# ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.255 {nothing happens}

debian:/home/chuck# ping 192.168.1.3
PING 192.168.1.3 (192.168.1.3): 56 data bytes {stops here}

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Thanks again,

Chuck

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Charles Muller
Toyo Gakuen University
Faculty of Humanities
1660 Hiregasaki, Nagareyama-shi
Chiba 270-0161, JAPAN

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