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Re: Question about PCI IDs and Drivers



On Wed, Jul 19, 2006 at 13:14:42 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Eduardo wrote:
> > I have a new Network Card, and I found the VENDOR ID and the DEVICE ID.
> > I found it in "lspci -nv" and later looking for the given number in
> > /var/libs/pciutils/pci.ids, but now, how do I know which driver to
> > use? And if Debian has it compiled?
> > 
> > The card is (listed with pci.ids) :
> > 
> > 1904  Hangzhou Silan Microelectronics Co., Ltd.
> >        8139  RTL8139D [Realtek] PCI 10/100BaseTX ethernet adaptor
> > 
> > Now, the output of lspci -v :
> > 
> > 0000:00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Hangzhou Silan Microelectronics Co.,
> > Ltd. RTL8139D [Realtek] PCI 10/100BaseTX ethernet adaptor (rev 01)
> >        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
> >        Memory at cfff7f00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
> >        I/O ports at d000 [size=256]
> >        Expansion ROM at cffa0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
> >        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
> >        Capabilities: [60] Vital Product Data
> > 
> > 
> > I think is the Driver 8139too, but when I modprobe it, my Network
> > Cards still doesnt work.
> > 
> > If I do "ifconfig eth1 10.0.0.221 255.255.255.0 up" it says No Such Device.
> 
> 8139too would also be my guess.
> 
> What's in your /etc/network/interfaces file?

There is also 8139cp which according to the comments in the source file
supports "8139C+" cards/chipsets from Realtek. I don't know if that
includes 8139D, but it might be worth a try.

-- 
Regards,
          Florian



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