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PostPosted: Tue May 13, 2003 5:42 pm    Post subject: Driver for RealTek RTL8100/B NIC Reply with quote

Hi,

I bought a new board last week with an integrated ethernet card.

What kernel drivers I have to use for this NIC? I used the RTL8139, but this one does not work. :(

http://www.realtek.com.tw/products/products1-2.aspx?modelid=9

any suggestions?

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PostPosted: Tue May 13, 2003 6:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

another question: there's wake-on-lan and some other features built-in. how may I use them?
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PostPosted: Wed May 14, 2003 10:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

no suggestions?

I've tried a few other drivers, but there's still the message the interface eth0 couldn't be found. :(
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PostPosted: Thu May 15, 2003 12:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Did you happen to buy a nforce2 motherboard? If so you will need to emerge nvidia-net and add it to your modules.autoload.

Hope this helps.
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PostPosted: Thu May 15, 2003 9:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

nope. It's a SiS Chip. I normally add the ethernet drivers directly into the kernel.
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PostPosted: Fri May 16, 2003 12:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

8139too driver works for me on a SiS 655 chipset board with an integrated RTL8100 chip.
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PostPosted: Fri May 16, 2003 4:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

tried again, without positive result. :(
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PostPosted: Sun May 18, 2003 11:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, I had the same problem using Mandrake 9.1 and Knoppix 3.2 on my ecs k7s5a+, which has an onboard Realtek 8100B NIC... I tried booting an old gentoo 1.4rc2 livecd and discovered that it worked using the 8139too module... Haven't tried the newer gentoo livecd...

At the moment I don't need the NIC working (I use the board as divx player with movix :), so I didn't study in depth the problem, but it's a really strange behaviour...


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PostPosted: Mon May 19, 2003 12:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi,

the problem's solved ... cat /proc/pci told me it's an SiS ethernet chip, not - as written at the elitegroup homepage - a realtek chip. :(

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PostPosted: Mon May 19, 2003 4:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

LOL.. :D
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PostPosted: Mon May 19, 2003 4:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

elkan wrote:
LOL.. :D


sure. never buy dirt-cheap hardware. :(
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PostPosted: Mon May 19, 2003 9:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What's your mainboard model?
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PostPosted: Tue May 20, 2003 4:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't really know. There's no model number printed on the box, just a sticker of Tom's Hardware Guide. Its K7S5A printed on it.

The board 's build in the case and I am to addled to open it again. ;)

'Never touch a running system.' ;)
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PostPosted: Tue May 20, 2003 4:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

damn'it ... I found the model number. It's printed at a small box left aside ... It's really the K7S5A, but I watched the K7S6A information on the homepage (there's no K7S5A model on the homepage, just K7S5A V3.X, Pro and +) ... ok, my fault ... :oops: On my last EPoX board there was all information printed in the manual, and at the box.
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