hey guys, just compiled the 2.4.21 kernel on my debian 3.0 with the 8139too driver for my realtek card. the card installs correctly and is detected, for dmesg i have (pertaining to ethernet)

8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26
eth0: SMC1211TX EZCard 10/100 (RealTek RTL8139) at 0xd1446000, 00:10:b5:9d:fd:cd, IRQ 11
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139B'
agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe0000000
eth0: Setting 100mbps full-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 41e1.

and in lsmod i have

vfat 9308 1 (autoclean)
fat 29272 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
agpgart 12352 0 (unused)
es1371 26720 0
ac97_codec 10720 0 [es1371]
8139too 15360 1
mii 2384 0 [8139too]

lastly for ifconfig i have
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:B5:9D:FD:CD
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 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:0x6000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1088 (1.0 KiB) TX bytes:1088 (1.0 KiB)

no ip.........

i put in /etc/modules.conf alias eth0 8139too and have also tried ifconfig eth0 up, which returns nothing, no errors or such. anyone have any ideas or any similar problems.........

thanks in advance.

anyone....... ideas........ no? =(

What does lsmod give?

it's listed up there.......

vfat 9308 1 (autoclean)
fat 29272 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
agpgart 12352 0 (unused)
es1371 26720 0
ac97_codec 10720 0 [es1371]
8139too 15360 1
mii 2384 0 [8139too]

i also tried af_packet as a module, and added alias net-pf-17 af_packet to /etc/modules.conf..... no help. any ideas? ive never been able to get the 8139too driver to work it's driving me nuts

Doesn't appear to be any problems and your module is working.

To assign an IP address:

ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.100 netmask 255.255.255.0 up

hey that's cool i didn't kno u could do that. but still, this is wut my ifconfig looks like currently, with the 2.2.20 kernel and the rtl8139 driver

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:B5:9D:FD:CD
inet addr:192.168.1.100 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:290 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:236 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:258613 (252.5 KiB) TX bytes:38979 (38.0 KiB)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xc400

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric:1
RX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1088 (1.0 KiB) TX bytes:1088 (1.0 KiB)


with the 2.4.21 kernel and the 8139too driver, after setting the ip using ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.100 netmask 255.255.255.0 up i have

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:B5:9D:FD:CD
inet addr:192.168.1.100 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 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:0x7000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:16 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1088 (1.0 KiB) TX bytes:1088 (1.0 KiB)

however, i cannot ping or access any websites..... any more ideas? thanks for the help thus far

You need to have a routing table set up as well. The default routing table usually works;
Where ${GATEWAY} is the IP address of your gateway machine.

ifconfig $IFACE $IPNUM broadcast $BCAST netmask $NMASK
route add -net default gw $GTWAY netmask 0.0.0.0 metric 1 $IFACE

That's generally what I use.

hey that works, thanks for all the help guys. one last question, how do i set this to b permanent? can i just add it to the end of my /etc/inetd.conf file? thanks

No. inetd.conf is very different.
I'm not entirely sure where, in Debian, the setup scripts are, but they are likely to be in /etc/init.d, /etc/rc#.d, or /etc/sysconf.d. There should be a network startup script somewhere in there that you can edit.

yea wut i ended up doing was i made a script file with those 2 commands in it, then i put a link in rcS roght after networking that points to the script file, works fine. thanks for all the help guys.