[Preston] A new hope for Debian wannabees?

[John]

Thanks for your help Guy, managed to get it going thankfully:o)

Cheers

John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Guy" <guy@remember-tomorrow.co.uk>
To: <preston@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 1:13 PM
Subject: Re: [Preston] A new hope for Debian wannabees?


> 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
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >
>
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