LinuxQuestions.org
Visit Jeremy's Blog.
Go Back   LinuxQuestions.org > Forums > Linux Forums > Linux - Networking
User Name
Password
Linux - Networking This forum is for any issue related to networks or networking.
Routing, network cards, OSI, etc. Anything is fair game.

Notices


Reply
  Search this Thread
Old 09-20-2007, 04:01 PM   #1
kipper
LQ Newbie
 
Registered: Nov 2004
Location: UK
Distribution: fedora core 2
Posts: 6

Rep: Reputation: 0
8139D NIC not working in mepis6.5


I have a GA7ZXR mobo, Athlon 1200 with an ebuyer NC100TX, 8139D-chip network card.

I installed mepis6.5 and it reports eth0 does not exist, and indeed there is no network access. I have also tried knoppix with the same result.

ifconfig reports only the lo interface.

I can't find an entry in dmesg relating to the NIC.

lspci -v
0000:00:09.0 Ethernet controller: Hangzhou Silan Microelectronics Co RTL8139D [Realtek] ethernet adaptor...
(no mention of an eth port)

So I think mepis is detecting the card, why is it not working as eth0?

TIA

Kipper
 
Old 09-20-2007, 04:20 PM   #2
lx4svr
LQ Newbie
 
Registered: Sep 2007
Posts: 12

Rep: Reputation: 0
NIC as something else

Some Linux and Unix distros use other ids for the network card. Solaris for example uses pcn0, and FreeBSD uses fxp0, but then I have never seen a linux distro use anything other than eth0 except for wireless which would be wlan0. I would suggest to use the "ifconfig -a" switch so that it can tell you all NIC even if they do not have an IP address. You can also try "ifconfig eth0 up".
 
Old 09-20-2007, 04:23 PM   #3
kipper
LQ Newbie
 
Registered: Nov 2004
Location: UK
Distribution: fedora core 2
Posts: 6

Original Poster
Rep: Reputation: 0
thanks for the reply,

ifconfig -a reports only the lo device, no eth* listed.

and
ifconfig eth0 up
says "no such device" !!
 
Old 09-20-2007, 04:43 PM   #4
lx4svr
LQ Newbie
 
Registered: Sep 2007
Posts: 12

Rep: Reputation: 0
I say no drivers

I would say that your NIC is not setup then. I have never had that NIC before, but a quick little google shows me that some have had issues. I would research for linux drivers for your chipset. My quick little google make me think that you may just need to run "modprobe rtl8139" as the root user. At least the output may show you something.
 
Old 09-21-2007, 12:41 AM   #5
kipper
LQ Newbie
 
Registered: Nov 2004
Location: UK
Distribution: fedora core 2
Posts: 6

Original Poster
Rep: Reputation: 0
modprobe rtl8139
FATAL...

so I tried...

modprobe 8139too

which gave no output, does that mean it has done something?

but still no eth0 showing, and I restarted the network.
 
Old 09-21-2007, 01:11 PM   #6
lx4svr
LQ Newbie
 
Registered: Sep 2007
Posts: 12

Rep: Reputation: 0
whats do these commands tell you?

lspci | grep -i ethernet

dmesg | grep eth

What does each tell you. Also you can try the following.

modprobe 8139too

and then to find out the outcome.

dmesg | tail
 
Old 09-22-2007, 05:34 AM   #7
kipper
LQ Newbie
 
Registered: Nov 2004
Location: UK
Distribution: fedora core 2
Posts: 6

Original Poster
Rep: Reputation: 0
Fixed

Thanks for the replies, but I swapped the NIC for a lucent one and all's well...

kipper
 
  


Reply


Thread Tools Search this Thread
Search this Thread:

Advanced Search

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is Off
HTML code is Off



Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
eth0 NIC Card Not Working! 3com 3c501 NIC. Mustard010 Linux - Networking 16 08-15-2007 02:22 AM
New AntiX-Mepis6.5 Final GoinEasy9 MEPIS 1 07-10-2007 05:20 PM
Triple boot w/XP, PCLOS, Mepis6.0 KStorm MEPIS 7 03-19-2007 06:31 PM
Apache2 config on Mepis6 and DynDNS F@32 Linux - Server 1 03-16-2007 08:55 AM
Mepis6.0.4 on a Jumpdrive winstephen MEPIS 7 03-09-2007 03:17 AM

LinuxQuestions.org > Forums > Linux Forums > Linux - Networking

All times are GMT -5. The time now is 03:06 PM.

Main Menu
Advertisement
My LQ
Write for LQ
LinuxQuestions.org is looking for people interested in writing Editorials, Articles, Reviews, and more. If you'd like to contribute content, let us know.
Main Menu
Syndicate
RSS1  Latest Threads
RSS1  LQ News
Twitter: @linuxquestions
Open Source Consulting | Domain Registration