Hello. Thank you for reading my question.
Well I just receantly installed new slackware and from some wierd reason I can't get the ethernet card to work. It is realtek 8139. I can get the interface eth0 to be up but I can't change it to HD. Well take a look:
(I used 8139 which is fresh compiled diagnostic tool for REALTEK)
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root@slackware:/home/jakublgz# ./8139 --force
Using the default interface 'eth0'.
Basic registers of MII PHY #32: ffff ffff 0000 0000 ffff ffff ffff 0000.
No MII transceiver present!.
The autonegotiated capability is 03e0.
The autonegotiated media type is 100baseTx-FD.
Basic mode control register 0xffff: Auto-negotiation enabled.
Internal Collision-Test enabled!
Restarted auto-negotiation in progress!
Transceiver isolated from the MII!
Transceiver powered down!
Transceiver in loopback mode!
Transceiver currently being reset!
Basic mode status register 0xffff ... ffff.
Link status: established.
Remote fault detected!
*** Link Jabber! ***
Your link partner advertised ffff: Flow-control 100baseT4 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx 10baseT-FD 10baseT, w/ 802.3X flow control.
End of basic transceiver information
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well I had to use --FORCe oterwise :
root@slackware:/home/jakublgz# ./8139
Using the default interface 'eth0'.
Basic registers of MII PHY #32: ffff ffff 0000 0000 ffff ffff ffff 0000.
No MII transceiver present!.
Use '--force' to view the information anyway.
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also:

root@slackware:/home/jakublgz# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:08:021:7E:75
inet addr:192.168.0.3 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:4294967289 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x8800
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part of DMESG
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26
8139too: pci dev 00:0b.0 (id 10ec:8139 rev 20) is an enhanced 8139C+ chip
8139too: Use the "8139cp" driver for improved performance and stability.
PCI: Assigned IRQ 11 for device 00:0b.0
IRQ routing conflict for 00:0c.0, have irq 10, want irq 11
IRQ routing conflict for 01:05.0, have irq 10, want irq 11
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0x8800, 00:08:02:d1:7e:75, IRQ 11
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'

Well all what I need to do is to set it to 10mbps and HalfDuples as my rest of the LAN is. Could anyone tell me what to do next ?
Thank you.

Jakub.

If you want to poke at the card and change some settings I beleive he mii tools might be able to fit the bill. It's a collection of utilities for playing with the hardware on some PCI nics.

That is eaxactly what I was doin...8139 file is compiled diagnostic tool for 8139 NIC card.
Thank you.


Jakub.

There are two 8139 modules, 8139too and 8139cp, your loading 8139too where you should be loading 8139cp according your dmesg output.