Network not working in fedora 8

smanandhar · 10-31-2008, 01:37 AM

hi!

in fedora 8, ethtool shows link dectected: yes, in eth0 for Realtek RTL8139/810. If i assing static IP for eth0, it accepts but it does not ping to other computers in network !!

The network works fine in Windows XP.

odcheck · 10-31-2008, 03:24 AM

Do you ping the host name or the IP Address?
What is the Error Message if you try to ping?

smanandhar · 11-01-2008, 08:39 AM

Yes it pings to its own IP. But it dont pings to other computers in the network.
i have checked firewall and selinux, they are all disabled.

I read some of posts...some says it is due to irq mismatcd and they suggests to pass different kernel arguments like pci= noapi, biosirq.... etc. But they seems not to be working in my case. They says it is realtek network card bug and should be fixed if i use 8139too driver instead of 8139c. But i am unable to fix this problem !!!!

odcheck · 11-01-2008, 11:10 AM

You could use modinfo to find out which options you could pass the module
for e.g. modinfo tg3

Code:

parm: tg3_debug:Tigon3 bitmapped debugging message enable value (int)

If you found the correct option you can edit your modprobe.conf with the needed option so that it's applied on boot.

tredegar · 11-01-2008, 11:19 AM

Windows can set these cards so they are (temporarily) unusable by linux.
See this thread: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...roblem-591466/
Especially post #12 by dresb, which has the solution.

smanandhar · 11-03-2008, 11:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tredegar

Windows can set these cards so they are (temporarily) unusable by linux.
See this thread: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...roblem-591466/
Especially post #12 by dresb, which has the solution.

Thanks!! This totally solved my problem.
Windows was disabling my n/w card when it shuts down. ?????
.. and we do not need to pass any kind of kernel argument to linux kernel too!!

Thanks