[SOLVED] Slackware 12 and ethernet card RTL 8029

hua · 07-02-2010, 03:40 PM

One stupid question.

I am really interested to configure my old desktop with Slackware 12 as a router.
But unfortunately I did not found any other ethernet card (second) as Realtek 8029. (I need two ethernet cards according to the howto http://www.stanford.edu/~fenn/linux/ )
It is possible to get up and running this card?

I was googling a lot. I tried to use the ne2k-pci module. It seems that it was loaded successfully, but I cannot see my interface (eth1) with ifconfig.
lspci shows:

Quote:

00:0b:0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS)

lsmod:

Quote:

ne2k-pci 12768 0 (used by)

ifconfig

Quote:

eth0 (VIA Rhine - working)
lo 127.0.0.1

michaelk · 07-02-2010, 03:59 PM

Yes, this card uses the ne2k-pci module ( I assume this is a PCI card)
Look at the output of the lspci command. Is the adapter recognized?

hua · 07-02-2010, 04:11 PM

It seems to me that ... yes. But to tell the truth I don't know exactly which line tells this to me ...
This is the output of the lspci -v

Quote:

00:0b:0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS)
Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8029(AS)
Flags: medium devsel, IRQ 17
I/O ports at bc00 [size=32]

I don't know maybe the module is loaded correctly but I didn't complete some another steps to get the ethernet card up and running ...

michaelk · 07-02-2010, 04:33 PM

Look at the output of the command
lsmod | grep ne2k
or to look at everything just
lsmod

hua · 07-02-2010, 04:54 PM

The output of lsmod | grep ne2k is:

Quote:

ne2k_pci 12768 0
8390 124161 ne2k_pci

michaelk · 07-02-2010, 04:59 PM

So far so good.
Post the output of the command /sbin/ifconfig. If you do not see both adapters then try /sbin/ifconfig -a

hua · 07-02-2010, 05:11 PM

And there it is. Its not eth1 but that's OK. The output of the ifconfig -a:

Quote:

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0B:6A:8D:96:3B
inet addr:192.168.1.22 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20b:6aff:fe8d:963b/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:141 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:100 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:12843 (12.5 KiB) TX bytes:27088 (26.4 KiB)
Interrupt:18 Base address:0x2c00

eth3 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:00:01:00:FD:43
BROADCAST 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:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:17 Base address:0xbc00

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:560 (560.0 b) TX bytes:560 (560.0 b)

Why eth3 and not eth1?

Thanks