Failed detection of "Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139" network card
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Sounds like a hardware problem - SuSE pretty good at finding working hardware - my own card is Realtek and YaST found it no problem. Could be card not seated correctly in PCI slot or could be not working.
If you have driver disk and dos disk there's probably setup and diagnostic program you could run - I have had problems before with NICs that have plug and play mode or NE2000 compatible mode.
Has it ever been working under linux? If so check the start up log and system log for error messages. Did you do something to your config before it stopped working?
If you go to YaST .. Hardware .. Hardware information and look under Network card and PCI does it show up? If not then highly likely its faulty.
Could try taking card out, booting into linux, closing down and then putting card back in and then see if it recognises it.
The card has worked, but very intermittently. The annoying thing is that it shows up on the hardware info on YaST, but it doesnt work. I also notice that eth0 is not shown in ifconfig, and that /dev/eth0 doesnt exist.
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