ethernet prob

[Joppo]

i just got a new ethernet card and it works fine on my win 98. My red hat 8 doesn't like it too much. It wont work.. It seems to configure fine but wont activate, just simply says "cant activate eth1".

My old card is still listed in the "network configuration wizard" list and it for some reason will activate (althought it doesn't exist hehe). Still cant get on internet though.. i'm using belkin home pc card F5D5000.. no official drivers for it.

Anyway i can make my card eth0 and get rid of my old cards config.. maybe that will help

[Tiomera]

I dont think that will help(changing from eth1 to eth1)...You might try though :)

I never installed a device without having a proper driver. Hum, maybe try to install a generic one. Otherwise, I think you would have to write the software to run it! (are you willing to ehhehehehe??)

EDIT:English :)

[DMR]

Originally posted by Joppo
i'm using belkin home pc card F5D5000.. no official drivers for it.I'm pretty sure that card uses a Realtek 8139 chipset, the drivers for which are already built into the kernel. The newer version of the driver is named 8139too.o and the older vrsion is rtl8139.o; try one of those.

As far as the "mystery card" weirdness goes:

Log in as root and post the output of the folowing commands (case-sensitive):

lspci |grep Ether

less /proc/interrupts

less /proc/ioports

lsmod

Also post the contents of /etc/modules.conf.