Re: Realtek rtl8139 nic and 2.4.20 kernel

["s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca>]

Incoming from Charles Muller:
> Uwe Dippel wrote:
> 
> (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 
> 
> (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 
.........................^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

In case it wasn't obvious, that's the difference.  I would think some
combination of ifconfig, route, and supplying a base address for the
IO port would fix it.


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