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Hi, please need help with getting a nic working:
I installed mandrake 9.1 in a new pc and seems working great but the connection to lan with realtek 8139 chip netword card .
No iptables running, security low, and everytime I ping another mandrake machine I get Destination Host Unreacheable, I boot with knoppix and the nic works just fine (log in with ssh in another machine).
Something is going wrong , this is the end of `dmesg` and it just looks bad:
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xce89e000, 00:e0:7d:b6:65:ba, IRQ 17
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'
devfs_register(1): could not append to parent, err: -17
devfs_register(a1): could not append to parent, err: -17
eth0: Setting 100mbps full-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 41e1.
NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
eth0: Tx queue start entry 4 dirty entry 0.
eth0: Tx descriptor 0 is 00002000. (queue head)
eth0: Tx descriptor 1 is 00002000.
eth0: Tx descriptor 2 is 00002000.
eth0: Tx descriptor 3 is 00002000.
eth0: Setting 100mbps full-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 41e1.
devfs_register(2): could not append to parent, err: -17
devfs_register(a2): could not append to parent, err: -17
devfs_register(3): could not append to parent, err: -17
devfs_register(a3): could not append to parent, err: -17
devfs_register(5): could not append to parent, err: -17
devfs_register(a5): could not append to parent, err: -17
devfs_register(4): could not append to parent, err: -17
devfs_register(a4): could not append to parent, err: -17
devfs_register(6): could not append to parent, err: -17
devfs_register(a6): could not append to parent, err: -17
If anyone can help I just would be very happy to learn why this weird thing is happening.
Another clue is that netconf hangs when trying to configure, but the result of lots of
ifconfig eth0 $ip netmask $mask
/etc/init.d/network start|restart|stop
is Destination host unreacheable
I don't suppose there is a dhcp server on that network is there? If so type dhclient and that should fix it. If not, have a look at the output of route. Post that here. In said output see what it says under the gateway setting for your nework (which should be 192.168.0.0).
the motherboard gigabite with sis650 chipset has onboard lan realtek 8100lb but I just disabled in bios. The situation was just the same, I put a nic realtek 8139 to see if things get better but just stays the same.
If I change the card from the pci slot it just change the irq but the problem is the same.
No dhcp server, only 2 computers running linux mandrake 9.1
#route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
No need of gateway cos only want to connect 2 pc to see the webpage that this one serves (nogui, but lots of lynx, D
have u think of a web server without network connection?
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