Ultra 5, onboard ethnet dead, PCI card options?

GenTimJS · Guru Joined: 03 May 2003 Posts: 406 Location: NH, USA

I have a realtek PCI ethernet card in my ultra5 (which works under gentoo i386) as the on-board ethernet device doesnt work.

The real pain is, that the onboard ethernet is still detected by dmesg and whatnot (and solaris....) however my realtek PCI card is not.

Anyone here know more about using PCI ethernet NICs in an ultra5 than I do?
If I cant get the networking up, I cant make gentoo go :-(

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torradan · Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2003 2:22 pm Post subject:

Any card listed in the kernel config *should* work.

Do you have the kernel compiled to include the Realtek card? or if you have it as a module, can you load the module?
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GenTimJS · Guru Joined: 03 May 2003 Posts: 406 Location: NH, USA

Im booting from the install CD

the problem is, that without the network device I cant download the sources to install ....

also, the card doesnt even show up in dmesg
:-(

-ed: also, if it helps, i used the bootprom to "test net" to check out the onboard NIC, and what fails is the "tranciever check" and returns an error code "-1" .....
the blinkeylight on my hub shows no link indication, however after i booted the gentoo CD and tried to ifconfig and route (as normal) anyway, the linklight comes on for apx 2 seconds, then goes off for apx 8 seconds, and this repeats indefinately....? ... so confused....
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