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*From:* Neal Hogan <nealhogan@gmail.com>
*To:* Sandip Sandip <new.debianuser@yahoo.in>
*Cc:* debian-user@lists.debian.org
*Sent:* Thursday, 13 August, 2009 7:41:02 PM
*Subject:* Re: installing a realtek 8139 lan card on 2.4.18
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 8:35 AM, Sandip Sandip<new.debianuser@yahoo.in
<mailto:new.debianuser@yahoo.in>> wrote:
> I am trying to install a realtek 8139 lan card on an old debian
machine -
> 2.4.18-bf2.4
>
> The card is properly installed - as in when I connect the lan cable
it the
> lights on the card start blinking.
>
> However, I am unable to access internet. Do I need to install
drivers and
> how do I do that?
What else have you done? Did you just plug it in?
I also read up the network howto and tried things like putting eth0 in
/etc/network/interfaces, trying eth0 up, etc.
No use - till now.
What does you system think of the card (eg, what is the output of
lspci | grep Realtek of dmesg)? What's the output of ifconfig -a?
lspci shows 00:0b.0 Ethernet Controller: MYSON Technologies Inc:
Unknown device 0803 (dont know from where has this MYSON come in)
grep of dmesg of realtek/ real/ myson/ 0803/ 8139 shows nothing!
ifconfig -a shows eth0 Link encap Ethernet HWAaddr 00:A1:B0:etc.
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU etc.
Some RX TX data - all zeroes
Interrupt:5 Base address:0xf0000
*Only* ifconfig shows lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0..1 Mask 255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric: 1
modconf shows has option to install a module for realtek 8139, though
there are other network cards
How is your IP assigned? Do you have an ISP provided router or is this
machine on the inside of a personal network?
It is a cable internet connection. On my Win XP laptop, I need to
connect the cable in my lan card port and I can access internet. The
IP address, DNS Server address is auto-assigned - DHCP.
What is in /etc/network/interfaces?
/etc/network/interfaces shows:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
There are a bunch of debian networking tutorials. Google lead me to
the following (among other things):
http://www.debian-administration.org/article/An_introduction_to_Debian_networking_setup
http://www.aboutdebian.com./
http://wiki.debian.org/Network [+]
Sure - tried these and a couple of others. But most *assume* that the
network card is installed, recognized properly. In my case, I think
that is the missing link - but I may be wrong.
Hope I am able to resolve it!
Sandip
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