[plug] Realtek NIC and SuSE

[Richard Meyer]

Thanks to Ben, Craig, and Sol, I'll be making a few changes to the system
this evening.

Thanks again for the advice.

Regards
RichardM


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I can vouch for this. I've got a realtek running the internal interface
on my home gateway (SuSE 8.2). I've got quite a few realtek cards one
running 2.2.18 and the rest 2.4.x and am aware of this issue. the
8139too driver works just fine.
YaST lets you do this GUI-wise.
Network Devices -> Network Card -> Change (configured devices) -> Edit
(eth?) -> Hardward Details.
I've installed SuSE on at least two machines with these cards and on
both occasions the card was autodetected.

cheers; sol


Richard Meyer wrote:

>
>
>'Lo guys,
>
>I put together a new system over the weekend, with the following
components
>
>Athlon 2400+
>Gigabyte GA7VT600 DDR400  M/B
>PC2700 512 MB  DDR
>Geforce MX440 SE 64MB  video card
>
>There are a couple of "insurmountable opportunities" with the system.
>
>1) Main problem is that SuSE 8.2 doesn't appear to work properly with the
>built-in Realtek NIC. Cannot ping my router or anything else on my
internal
>network 10.x.x.x. Nothing else can ping the IP I give it, from outside,
>either. ifconfig looks all right.
>
>Just to prevent finger-pointing and accusations of hardware problems, Win
>98 will ping from the machine, and so will Knoppix, and I can ping inward.
>Any ideas? I've ALLTHEWEBed looking for problems with Linux and the mother
>board, but no dice.
>
>NBNB  ==============>>>> STOP THE PRESSES
>
>While using different keywords, I found (Goes to show that different
people
>will get different results when searching - it's an art).
>
>http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/mjb_rtl8139_24.html
>
>Anybody tried this already? I'll give it a go tonight, but I'd feel better
>if some could vouch for it.
>
>
>2) When Linux starts up, it gives a brief description of the CPU it's
>running on and the clockspeed. It says Athlon 1800+ running at 1500 MHz.
>Any ideas how I can get my full 2400+ speed out of this machine? I've
>studied the motherboard manual, and there is one switch, but it only talks
>about FSB speed there.
>
>Any ideas gratefully accepted.
>
>Regards
>RichardM
>
>
>


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