Re: PCI ethernet card from ebay doesn't work at all. Possibly fake, but which?

[Angus Auld <aonghas_auld@yahoo.com>]

> Subject: Re: PCI ethernet card from ebay doesn't work at all.  Possibly fake, but which?
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Date: Sunday, November 30, 2008, 3:01 AM
> On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 23:47:12 -0500, A. F. Cano wrote:
> 
> > Any hints will be greatly
> > appreciated. Thanks.
> > 
> > A.
>
I have a cardbus adapter called "Zonet ZEN 1201 10/100 Mbps Fast Ethernet 32-bit", which is actually a Realtek RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+. It was very inexpensive, but it works extremely well for me in my Dell Inspiron 1150 using Lenny.
It is identified thusly by lshw:
*-network
          description: Ethernet interface
          product: RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
          vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
          physical id: 1
          bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
          logical name: eth0
          version: 10
          serial: 00:00:b4:20:25:3c
          size: 100MB/s
          capacity: 100MB/s
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 33MHz
          capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
          configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=8139too driverversion=0.9.28 duplex=full ip=192.168.2.2 latency=64 link=yes maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 module=8139too multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s

And lspci -v shows this about it:
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
        Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RT8139
        Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
        I/O ports at d000 [size=256]
        Memory at f9400000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
        Kernel driver in use: 8139too
        Kernel modules: 8139cp, 8139too

I have had no problems whatsoever with this card on several different Linux distributions.

I am more than willing to post any of my configs that could be of help.

Regards.
 

 
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