[SOLVED] Problems with ethernet card.

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I installed Fedora Core 2 on my laptop, which has integrated ethernet and wireless. I was trying to get the wireless to work and among other things I deleted the ethernet card through the graphical menu in KDE (System Settings -> Network).

Now I cannot get the ethernet card back, I am running the latest build of the 2.6.8 core. If you need more information let me know.

[Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379]

What kind of ethernet card do you have? What happens when you type ifconfig -a as root?

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It is a Realtek, uses the 8139too driver. I will find out what it says.


when I type ifconfig -a, I get information on the devices lo (loopback) and sit0, there is no eth0 at all, not even in my /dev directory. I would post the output in the console but I have to boot to linux to do everything and I am posting in Windows.

[Alex Cavnar, aka alc6379]

try typing in lsmod , and get a listing of what modules are loaded. It's possible that your 8139too module got unloaded.

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The driver was not listed when I typed lsmod, when linux booted up, it told me it could not find the module "rtl8192", yes it said rtl as opposed to rlt. I tried modprobe 8139too from the directory it was in but it told me the module could not be found, how do I go about adding the module to the kernel?

I also tried modprobe eth0 but that did not work either

[je_fro]

become su and do:
# modprobe 8139too

what does it say?
you can also try insmod instead of modprobe.

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modprobe said the module could not be found , I tried putting the entire path to the module and just typing it in, and insmod said it was invalid options.

[bwkaz]

Have you tried /sbin/insmod /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/net/8139too.ko?

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IT turns out that modprobe 8139too worked, I dont know how I missed it.