[Preston] A new hope for Debian wannabees?

[Guy]

John,
My laptop has a realtek NIC installed and it works fine with Debian. :-)
I think you are using the wrong module. The one you want is called 8139too. 
(This is the newer version of the rtl8139 module)
Check in /lib/modules/2.2.20-idepci/net for the file 8139too.o
(This file path may be slightly different on your system at the 2.2.20 part - 
depending on how you installed)
Then do 'modprobe 8139too' as root and your card should work. I would be very 
suprised if this module was not there.

Best wishes,
-- 
Guy

> Hi All,
>
> I am struggling on with Debian but I have not been able to get my NIC
> working. It is a Netgear (Realtek) which uses the rtl8139 driver but this
> does not seem to appear anywhere in Debian 3.0's list of driver files. It
> seems to want to use natsemi.o for some reason??!!?? I have set up the
> usual pasms in /etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf and configured this machine to
> have an IP od 192.168.1.50 and a gateway of 192.168.1.100 (my ipcop
> firewall machine which connects to the internet via an external mode).
> However, any attempts to ping 192.168.1.100 results in "destination
> unreachable" messages. When I do an lsmod, I can see natsemi is loaded (but
> unused by anything). I do have a rtl8139.c file on a cdrom which came with
> the NIC, but I can't seem to get it to compile (admittedly the instructions
> are for redhat). It comes back with an error telling me to compile it with
> the -O option. I have tried this (although the README.TXT says to use -O6)
> but to no avail... If anybody out there has got Debian experience and can
> help me to get my Debian PC to talk to my lan via a RealTek 8139 NIC it
> would be really appreciated...
>
> Thanks
>
> John
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