Upgraded to 2.6.16.22

Bill2 · 07-11-2006, 08:02 PM

When I initially installed Slackware 10.2 , it was working well with my soundcard and network card. When i have upgraded my kernel from 2.4 to 2.6.16.22 - I have some problem in my network card, its not working. I have complete source of kernel 2.6.16.22 Please help me to get my network card activated.

I am using Realtek RTL8139/810X

Thanks

quip · 07-11-2006, 08:13 PM

How did you upgrade your kernel? If you built it yourself, then you probably didn't enable it in the kernel, since it is a supported device there.

Do you know which driver you need? There are a couple related to the 8139 chipset. A quick look at my hotplug blacklist (/etc/hotplug/blacklist) shows that one of them (8139cp) is in there. An upgrade might have introduced it, like it did with my hostap modules a couple of months ago.

kassle · 07-11-2006, 08:15 PM

hmmm ... there is an issue about rtl8139 in linux since there is two driver is available for NIC models. By default 8139cp driver is used, the problem is this driver isn't compatible with the another one driver (8139too). Type:

Quote:

dmesg | grep 8139

if you found something to try 8139too driver then you should
unload the 8139cp driver and load 8139too driver. Here it is:

Quote:

rmmod 8139cp
modprobe 8139too

now the NIC should be usable.

good luck.

chrisortiz · 07-11-2006, 08:18 PM

go to your 2.6.16.22 src dir, run make menuconfig go to Device Drivers > Networking > 10 or 100 > Realtek RTL-8129
make it a module. save, exit. then run "make modules_install" and depmod -a since your already running the 2.6.16.22 kernel you won't have to reboot.

then edit /etc/modules.conf
and put in alias eth0 8139too
then modprobe 8139too
that should do it.

as for you sound rerun alsaconf, alsactl store

davidsrsb · 07-11-2006, 09:40 PM

Have a good look at the chip, the suffix on the part number is important eg RTL8139C