I had a similar thread going on the Newbie forum but I never got an answer to this problem. I've got a Abit P4 motherboard (AT7 Max2 V.2) with an onboard RealTek ethernet adapter. For some reason it won't activate. I've got Fedora Core1 installed and everything else (so far) is working fine. I've tried lots of things with no fix but today I noticed a popup in the "redhat-config-network" tool with some interesting info. I run that tool and then pick the "Hardware" tab. My NIC is highlighted. I pick "Edit" and get this:

Network Adapters Configuration
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Adapter: RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
Device: eth0

Resource
IRQ: Unknown
MEM:
IO
IO1
IO2
DMA0
DMA1


Why doesn't it know what the NIC's IRQ is? Or it's IO addresses?

I do an "lspci -v" and it reports the following.


# lspci -v
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp.: Unknown device 7406
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
I/O ports at 9000 [size=256]
Memory at df006000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2


Does any of this give anyone a clue why the NIC won't activate?

Thanks in advance.

Utah

Oh yes, I know the LAN cable is good because I plug it into my laptop and all is fine. The green activity light on the ethernet RJ45 connector is lit as well as the "Link" light on the other end of the cable plugged into my little Belkin 3 port, wireless "Gateway Router". (DSL service) I've got the NIC set for DHCP.

Utah

put this in /etc/modules.conf file.

alias eth0 8139too


and, if that fails to work out.
try:
modprobe 8139too

Should work.

of course reboot, as thats where the system engages modprobe on the modules.conf file.

I think there are two 8139 modules, if one doesn't work try the other.
8139too and rtl8139

I have the alias in /etc/modules.conf and have done modprobe so the module 8139too shows in lsmod.

I don't seem to have module rtl8139 on my system.

And shouldn't redhat-config-network report the memory and IO Port addresses for the NIC?

Utah