[Gllug] 8139 driver problem

[Jim Bailey]

Hi,

you may need to configure the card start off with the command ifconfig -a 
it should tell you more than you ever needed to know about your NIC.  The 
man ifconfig or info ifconfig commands should also help you to start 
tracking down the problem.

If that fails you may want to check that you compiled rt8139 support in 
your kernel lsmod is the command I think.

Peace Jim

"He who knows tells it not, he who tells knows it not." Lao Tsu

On Wednesday, September 26, 2001, at 02:14 PM, Jonathan Dye wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've got a RealTek 8139 Network card and am running RedHat 7.1 with 
> updated
> rpm's (Including the kernel rpm making it version 2.4.3-12).  My network
> connection keeps being dropped (By dropped I mean it doesn't respond to 
> any
> network traffic even though the link lights are on) for no apparent reason
> and the only problem I can see in the log files is the following:
> media is unconnected, link down, or incompatible connection
>
> But this happens at boot time and the link can be running for ages before
> anything goes wrong.  I don't think I had any problems with the default
> RH7.1 kernel (2.4.2 I think) but I only had it running for about 2 hours
> before upgrading.
>
> I don't know which (if any) log/configuration files are needed to diagnose
> this so I haven't included any with this mail.
>
> Can anyone shed any light on this or tell me how to downgrade my kernel 
> rpm
> or where to find a patch so that I can fix my current kernel source and
> compile my own?
>
> JD
>
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