Re: re: 8139 and interface errors
Donald Becker <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.drivers.realtek.devel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Mon, 19 Aug 2002, Dave Eidson wrote: > On Monday 19 August 2002 10:52, Donald Becker wrote: > > > > utility, the default setting for connection is "auto". > > This is the correct setting. > > > What driver version? > > In trying various ways to solve the problem, we compliled and used a number > of different kernels and drivers. I do not have the driver version used with > the 2.2.18 kernel That was very likely a rtl8139 driver. > however with kernel 2.4.4 the driver version is 0.9.16, > and with kernel 2.4.19, version 0.9.25. Those are the modified "8139too" driver. Try using the driver set ncftp ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/netdrivers.tgz tar xfvz netdrivers.tgz make make install > However, the errors on eth0 were just as bad when we tried a 3Com 3c905b > card early on when we thought the problem was hardware related. This sounds like a duplex mismatch on the negotiated link. Try the updated driver for the 3c905 card as well. > This looks to me to be something related to the upgraded network programs > that are part of the Woody release, and not so much driver/kernel > related. Yup. -- Donald Becker [email protected] Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com 410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Second Generation Beowulf Clusters Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993