i read someware that u will try FC5.. if yes the tell us here...
in FC5 u have 'make' also.
and u can compile the drivers. i have had that problem of realtech with FC4 on my laptop. was unable to install the drivers.
you should have kernel-source (now kernel-devel) rpms installed.
download and install these. without these u cannot compile using make.
and if it is still Ubuntu then hardluck...
anyways here it goes.. i had done lots of research in the same matter u may try it:
it does say here that the card is supported....
*wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsWiredNetworkCards
ther must me some settings problem that we are not able to identify.
or may be there is some other compatibility issue...
check to see if anything other connected thru PCI is detected?
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please tell output of this cmds:
Code:
lspci -v
lspci | grep Eth
lsmod | grep 8139
and see of something like this is there(in output of 1st one)
Code:
0000:06:01.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C /8139C+ (rev 10)
Subsystem: Compex FN22-3(A) LinxPRO Ethernet Adapter
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 22
I/O ports at b800 [size=256]
Memory at ff510000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Expansion ROM at ff500000 [disabled] [size=64K]
Capabilities: <available only to root>
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and try to boot kernel with must be "noapic acpi=off" option. must be "noapic acpi=off" not "noapci acpi=off"(common typo)
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read this somewere:
Try adding a line to /etc/iftab file with your cards MAC address:
eg:
eth0 mac 00:0f:ea:74:27:e6 arp 1
MAC address is sometimes written on the card or can be optained from windows. I'm busy grasping at straws here.
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somewere deep inside the internet:
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put an entry for eth1(whatever ur card is like eth0,eth1.. in /proc/net/dev) into /etc/network/interfaces as follows:
Code:
auto lo eth1
iface eth1 inet static
address 192.168.100.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
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some says
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It could be IRQ conflict prob due to auto irq assign from bios.. try manual IRQ settings
after that the card may get recognized if there are no errors in dmesg.
losmod should list the driver rtl8139 as used=1
see cat /proc/interrupts which shows eth0's IRQ like 'IRQ3' and improvise via bios.
ifconfig should list eth0 u shld be able to ping the network and the internet.
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Do a search for linux-image in Synaptic and see what version of the kernel you are running and if a newer one is available. I'd recommend trying a newer kernel if there is a 2.6.11 kernel listed there as a first attempt. If you can't get to the Internet from that machine then you'll somehow have to get this file(*packages.ubuntu.com/hoary/base/linux-image-2.6.11-1-386) onto the machine and install it manually (using the dpkg -i packagename.deb command).
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this is all i could dig up from my gigantic collection of research...and the net.
hope something helps...
. If the card doesn't work in that version, IMO best would be to get 6.06 too. Becuase after connecting to the net too he'll have 1000's of updates, also I guess they've stopped updates for it. So, not much sense using it for now.
