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arqeco

Member

Registered: 2012-05-06

Posts: 3

How to install RTL 8139 network card ?

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

mojo

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: How to install RTL 8139 network card ?

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.

arqeco

Member

Registered: 2012-05-06

Posts: 3

Re: How to install RTL 8139 network card ?

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

mojo

Administrator

Registered: 2011-03-29

Posts: 2,174

Re: How to install RTL 8139 network card ?

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:

[c]ping 8.8.8.8[/c]

[c]ping www.slitaz.org[/c]

If you get ping replys your connected.

arqeco

Member

Registered: 2012-05-06

Posts: 3

Re: How to install RTL 8139 network card ?

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