Re: rtl8139 on laptop

On Fri, 20 Jun 2003, Christian Steiner wrote:

> i spent another sleepless night just to get that pcmcia card for my laptop workig.
> here is how far i got:
> - Compiling OK
> - Loading pci-scan.o
> - Loading rtl8139 FAILS

You can't load the module by hand for a CardBus card...

> with a dmesg i get the following lines:
> rtl8139.c:v1.22 11/17/2002 Donald Becker, [email protected].
>  http://www.scyld.com/network/rtl8139.html
> PCI device 'RealTek RTL8139C Fast Ethernet' was not assigned an IRQ.
> It will not be activated.

...it has to be activated and assigned resources (IRQ and I/O) by the
PCMCIA code.

The steps to take depens on the exact configuration, but try adding to
the table in /etc/pcmcia/  using the directions at
  http://www.scyld.com/network/updates.html


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