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01-15-2002, 11:47 AM
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PLEASE HELP , LAPTOP and NIC problem
hi all ,,
you won't know how happy am i to find this site ..
please help me solve this problem soooooooooooooon .
i have an asus laptop with a modem==Lan card installed
i have 3 OS's ,,, xp .. non commercial linux distro .. and redhat 7.2
in the non comercial disto and the xp .. the NIC was supported .. (REAL TEK 8139 )
but on redhat .. it didn't detect it automatically .. tried going to network configuration .. choosing ethernet .. and realtek 8139 but it says .. cannot be initialized or something..
please i have no idea about networking with this thing
i really need to access the internet from the LAN .. please help
start from the beginning
best regards
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01-16-2002, 05:47 AM
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please
please any body help! 
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01-16-2002, 06:05 AM
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You need to use netconfig/netconf, not sure which it is called, but it should pop up from your gnome start button somewhere. If you chose to install linuxconf, you can use that. Once you get to the network config, enter your ip addresses etc, then select rt8139 (or the option that looks like that, not at RH machine to check) as the module to use, and you should be away. There are potentioal problems with this driver in that there are two 8139 drivers in some distros, I think you need 8139too if this is the case. Give it a go, and we'll troubleshoot along the way.
Jim
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01-17-2002, 04:22 AM
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Doc Jim has it right about the rtl8139 chipset schizophrenia that has been going on with the kernel recently, but I think its a different module entirely if this is a PCMCIA card as opposed to an onboard ethernet port.
First off, if it works under the non-commercial distro (which one offhand?), what module is it using: 'lsmod' will list them.
Second, what kernel is the Non-comercial running? RH7.2 is 2.4.9... right Jim?
Cheers,
Finegan
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01-17-2002, 10:41 AM
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THANKS FOR REPLYING
hi there ,
tried netconfig in gnome .. i chose the ip and net mask ..etc
then entered ok ...
and i do ifconfig to see the ip adress
it shows 127.0.0.1
and the ip ive put is not there ...
went to :
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/l...al/doc111.html
and tried finding rtl8139.o in the system but messages of
I/O error .. came to me .
went to networking configuration .. same problem ( cannot enitilaize networking or something semilar )
any ideas?!
tried looking for eth0 ... nothing showed up
finegan:
did .. lsmod in the none commercial ... ( its name is Os-OS Open Source Operating System)
showed a list of modules and the pcmcia_core was 37568 in size
used by ds yenta_socket
will that help??
the OsOs kernel is 2.4.12 .. had 2.4.10 and worked fine ...
dont' know if this would help
any ideaS? please guyz i really need to access the network
thanks alot
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01-17-2002, 10:55 AM
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Is this an onboard or pcmcia card? If it's pcmcia, it may be that pcmcia cs isn't loading. Check /var/log/dmesg and /var/log/messages for anything about pcmcia. If nothing there, look in /lib/modules/ for anything calling itself pcmcia and try modprobing it.
I'm about to stick the RH disk in my laptop (work project done, so can live without windoze for a bit ;-) ) so may be able to help more in a while
Jim
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01-19-2002, 04:42 AM
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hi jim
it is an onboard LAN/ modem ...
did you installed RH in you r laptop
if yes pleeeeeeeeeeease reply
best regards
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