[SWLUG] Getting NTL broadband to work

[justin at discordia.org.uk]

On 30 Dec, Neil Jones wrote:
> On Monday 30 December 2002 04:39 p
> Yes it is a Realtek and the original driver was 8139too
 
> On boot I get the messages
> Modprobe can't find eth0
> Delaying eth1 initialization.   (That IS eth1)

Okay, this looks like you now have TWO ether cards configured, this can
happen if the autoconfig gets confused.

You need to manually fix /etc/modules.conf
make sure there is a line in there saying 'alias eth0 8139too'
and remove the line for eth1 (i assume you only have one network card in
there)

Also take a peek in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
The two important lines in there will be
ONBOOT="yes"  and  BOOTPROTO="bootp"  (or some value other than "none")

Then try to 'up' the interface again.

You should now get the driver loading correctly, 
and dmesg will say something like :-

8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.18a
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 00:09.0
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xd08b4000, 00:50:de:ad:be:ef, IRQ 10
eth0:  Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'

Which confirms that it has loaded the driver and found the card and set
it as eth0 the first ethernet interface.


If you still get the problem of 'Determining IP Address' failed,
then you need to check which dhcp client your system is using.
See if pump is installed (something like rpm -q pump)
if it is, then remove it and install the dhcpcd package instead.


> eth0: Setting 100mbps full-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 
> 45e1.
Thats a little unusual as i would have thought the cable modem only had
a 10mb ether chip in it, but otherwise should be any harm.