How to install RTL 8139 network card ?

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How to install RTL 8139 network card ?

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Started 11 years ago by Márcio Moreira
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Márcio Moreira

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Friends,

This is my first post here on the forum. I've just discovered SliTaz and found it great. It's really a very modern desktop OS for old computers and runs pretty fast on my Pentium3/733/192Mb.

But after trying for a couple of days without success, I discovered that SliTaz 4.0 comes without support for RTL 8139 network cards. It's a miss, because there are lots of old computers with them, at least here in Brazil.

So I would like to ask for your help on how to setup RTL 8139C or RTL 8139D on SliTaz (I have both).

Thank you (and again, this distro is a great job).

Márcio

Posted 11 years ago #
mojo

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Slitaz-4.0 supports rtl8139 ethernet chipset with the 8139too driver.
My rtl8139 works:
root@slitaz:~# lspci -nn | grep -i eth
00:0e.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ [10ec:8139] (rev 10)

root@slitaz:~# dmesg | grep -i 8139too
8139too: 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.28
8139too 0000:00:0e.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKB] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
8139too 0000:00:0e.0: eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xe0812000, 00:c0:26:6f:2f:4f, IRQ 10

Boot into slitaz-4.0 with card installed.
Run the commands in bold above.
Post the output in your reply.

Posted 11 years ago #
Márcio Moreira

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Hello Mojo,

The output:

root@slitaz:/home/tux# lspci -nn | grep -i eth

00:09.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6105/VT6106S [Rhine-III] [1106:3106] (rev 86)
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ [10ec:8139] (rev 10)

root@slitaz:/home/tux# dmesg | grep -i 8139too

8139too: 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.28
8139too 0000:00:0b.0: found PCI INT A -> IRQ 10
8139too 0000:00:0b.0: sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:01.2
8139too 0000:00:0b.0: sharing IRQ 10 with 0000:00:01.3
8139too 0000:00:0b.0: eth1: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xc7818e00, 00:08:54:18:58:3f, IRQ 10

root@slitaz:/home/tux# modprobe 8139too

modprobe: module 8139too not found in modules.dep

Thanks for your reply,
Marcio

Posted 11 years ago #
mojo

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The network script in slitaz only supports (1) one network adapter.
You have (2) network adapters.
On board hardware is detected before plugin cards.
Usually on board ethernet and sound can be disabled in hardware bios.
This makes plugin card assigned default 0 device.
This is more important for audio than ethernet.
Slitaz recognizes the on-board VIA ethernet adapter as eth0.
The rtl8139 adapter is recognized by slitaz as eth1
To use the rtl8139 ethernet adapter:
[1]Open terminal,su ,password: root
leafpad /etc/network.conf
# Set default interface.
INTERFACE="eth1"

# Wifi connection.
# Enable/disable wireless connection at boot time.
WIFI="no"

File/Save File/exit leafpad

[2]Type this in terminal:
/etc/init.d/network.sh stop
Enter
Type this in terminal:
/etc/init.d/network.sh start
Enter

You should see your computer assigned an i.p. address , DNS servers by your router or internet provider.

[3]Type this in terminal:
ping 8.8.8.8
ping http://www.slitaz.org

If you get ping replys your connected.

Posted 11 years ago #
Márcio Moreira

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Hello Mojo,

After so many tests I had left two different cards on the machine, one RTL8139 and one VIA VT6105. After reading your last message I removed the VIA card and the network worked.

Another question I have is if its possible to have two network interfaces on Slitaz, one wired and one wireless. I ask this because you recommended in your last post to disable the wireless connection on network.conf.

Thanks,
Márcio

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