Hi all

i m facing a problem with rtl 8100 on rhel 4 , the card works ok on xp and gives problem on rhel 4 only
following is the information and output of everything i thought would help u all to help me find out the problem and its soultion

lspci

01:05.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)

lsmod

8139too 25921 0
mii 4673 1 8139too

/etc/modprobe.conf

alias eth0 8139too

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts

DEVICE=eth0
BROADCAST=192.168.4.255
IPADDR=192.168.4.13
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.4.0
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=Ethernet
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=yes
GATEWAY=192.168.4.130
IPV6INIT=no
HWADDR=00:01:6c:f0:34:33
BOOTPROTO=none

service network restart

Shutting down interface eth0: [ OK ]
Shutting down loopback
interface: [ OK ]
Setting network parameters: [ OK ]Bringing up loopback interface: [ OK ]
Bringing up interface eth0: [ OK ]

i tried with bootproto dhcp but it gave error.

route -n

Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.4.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
0.0.0.0 192.168.4.130 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0

ifconfig eth0

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:01:6C:F0:34:33
inet addr:192.168.4.13 Bcast:192.168.4.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::201:6cff:fef0:3433/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:281410 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xc000

i checked the IRQ its configured as 10 and no conflict

if i install windows my lan card is working fine and pings too but in rhel 4 it doesnt

My pc is IBM think center 8291 model with 915m1012 GV motherboard and onboard rtl 8100c NIC


dmesg |grep -i eth0

NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
eth0: Transmit timeout, status 0c 0005 c07f media 10.
eth0: Tx queue start entry 4 dirty entry 0.
eth0: Tx descriptor 0 is 0008a05a. (queue head)
eth0: Tx descriptor 1 is 0008a03c.
eth0: Tx descriptor 2 is 0008a04e.
eth0: Tx descriptor 3 is 0008a03c.
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0xC5E1
NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
eth0: Transmit timeout, status 0c 0005 c07f media 10.
eth0: Tx queue start entry 4 dirty entry 0.
eth0: Tx descriptor 0 is 0008a046. (queue head)
eth0: Tx descriptor 1 is 0008a03c.
eth0: Tx descriptor 2 is 0008a03c.
eth0: Tx descriptor 3 is 0008a046.
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0xC5E1


cat /proc/interrupts

CPU0
0: 89752353 XT-PIC timer
1: 5620 XT-PIC i8042
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
3: 0 XT-PIC Intel ICH
5: 0 XT-PIC uhci_hcd, i915@pci:0000:00:02.0
8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
9: 356171 XT-PIC acpi, ehci_hcd, uhci_hcd
10: 0 XT-PIC eth0
11: 70819 XT-PIC uhci_hcd, uhci_hcd
12: 66 XT-PIC i8042
14: 38 XT-PIC ide0
15: 62266 XT-PIC libata
NMI: 0
ERR: 0


thanks for the help in advance

Sounds like a driver problem. Make sure you have the right driver and re-install it on your machine. Then go into the system settings and check your settings.