[realtek-bug] Problem: network unreachable

[Donald Becker]

On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Michael Dumke wrote:

> I have a laptop with the RTL8139 and a kernel 2.4.19 (SuSE 8.1).
> I tried the versions 1.20 and 1.22 of rtl8139.o, but didn't manage to
> connect to the network.
> 
> It didn't work either with the 8139too.o driver from SuSE or Mandrake.

You have a problem with the CardBus IRQ code.
This problem isn't related to the realtek driver version -- the NIC driver
doesn't set up the IRQ mapping.

> I found a similar problem in the list archive from September, but no
> solution.

The solution is to fix the CardBus bus bridge configuration.  It
usually isn't necessary to configure this by hand, but may be on a few
specific laptop models.


> With the v1.22, the messages in /var/log/messages are:
...
> kernel: eth0: Transmit timeout, status 0c 0005 media 10.
> kernel: eth0: RTL8139 Interrupt line blocked, status 5.

Yup, guess why I had to add messages like this to the drivers.

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