[Gllug] 8139 driver problem

[Jonathan Dye]

At 13:54 27/09/01 +0100, you wrote:
>On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, 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
>
>Many Realtek cards are unreliable.  In fact, with any Realtek Ethernet
>card my first reaction to this kind of problem is to replace it with
>something better, like a modern £com 3c59x type thing.  You can get them
>for about £35 now.
>
>The other thing you can try is a genuinely up to date kernel - 2.4.10,
>instead of whatever the Redhat rpms are currently doing.  They've been
>lagging a lot recently, and as I recall there were some Realtek driver
>changes about 2.4.4 or 2.4.6.  

I've found the 8139too driver page on sourceforge and I'll try those when I
get home to my computer.  Have just finished downloading the kernel source
that goes with the kernel rpm I have installed.  I would download the
kernel from kernel.org but last time I did that with RedHat it managed to
break stuff because of all the patches that Redhat had added and were
depended on.

JD


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