[Gllug] 8139 driver problem

[Simon Trimmer]

Though hopefully your problem is solved, probably the best resource on the
net for network drivers & troubleshooting is http://www.scyld.com/diag/

This was the first place that had really good mii diagnostics and still has
some extremely useful tools.  For the real thing go have a look at the card
specific tools but for a quick fix, Redhat 7.1 ships with the generic
"mii-tool"

-Simon


On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Jonathan Dye wrote:
> At 16:44 26/09/01 +0000, you wrote:
>
> >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.
>
> 8139too.o is the driver I'm using but on my other box I'm using rtl8139.o
> (kernel 2.2.19).  Apparently the 8139too is based on the rtl8139 and I
> think rtl3139 has been dropped from the later kernels. It's defiantly
> talking to the hub because I can have it working for maybe an hour or two
> before it just stops listening.  There are no problems at all while it is
> working, I can have any traffic I want going over it and I've been using it
> heavily.  I've managed to find a few mailing list postings about a patch to
> 2.4.5 to do with the problem I have and it seems to remove the line that
> prints the error I'm getting so I'm hoping it's a fix to my problem.  Might
> just remove the error message and leave me with nothing though!
>
> JD



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