[wplug] Realtek 8139 PCI card

[harrold at sage.che.pitt.edu]

On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, William K. Coulter wrote:

> I changed /etc/modules.conf, rebooted, and tried to enter "ifup eth0" in the
> command prompt:
> 
> [root at localhost /root]# ifup eth0
> usage: ifup <device name>
> 
> I have not been able to set up the network parameters; I don't know where to
> do that and Redhat 7.0  install does not ask for IP, hostname, etc.  That
> might be part of the problem.

netconfig for ncurses based 
netconf   for gtk based

> Also, I visited the "HOWTO" pages at
> http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.31 and they say
> that the Realtek 8139 is only semi-supported.
> 
> Thanks,
> - Will
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Brian Sammon" <bsammon at yifan.net>
> To: <wplug at wplug.org>
> Sent: Saturday, March 24, 2001 4:10 AM
> Subject: Re: [wplug] Realtek 8139 PCI card
> 
> 
> > Redhat 7 should support the Realtek 8139 card.
> > Since it appears that Redhat isn't able to automatically configure it,
> I'll
> > give you instructions on how to manually configure it.
> >
> > You need to edit the file /etc/modules.conf
> > Look for a line that starts with "alias eth0"
> > replace it with a line that says "alias eth0 rtl8139"
> >
> > If you don't have such a line, just add a line to the file saying
> > "alias eth0 rtl8139"
> >
> > Then if you've got all of the other networking parameters configured, try
> > activating eth0.  Redhat 7 probably has a GUI program to do this with, or
> you
> > can go to a command prompt and type "ifup eth0".
> >
> > If this doesn't get things working, try going to a command prompt and
> typing
> > the following two lines and tell us what happened:
> > "rmmod rtl8139"
> > "modprobe eth0"
> >
> >
> >
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john