I'm configuring a new firewall appliance (an Acrosser AR-M9952 network appliance/embedded PC), and it uses the RealTek RTL8100 BL NIC driver. To try and determine what NIC driver to use, I consulted their website which indicated that for all the various OSes, the driver for rtl8100 xL and rtl8139 xl are the same. So based on that I thought to try either 8139cp.o or 8139too.o (along with crc32.o and mii.o ) modules. Initially I loaded both (8139cp and 8139too), and the system gave a message indicating to try 8139too.o module, which is what I've done.
The system goes through the boot up process fine, and it seems to load the drivers because each of the NICs (three of them) are identified by ETH0, ETH1, ETH2, their MAC addresses, and assigned IRQs. To assign IP addresses, ETH0 uses DHCP to pick up a static IP from my ISP, and the other two have static IPs. DHCP never picks up the address from the ISP, and when I try to ping any of the IP addresses from the system itself, a message appears stating that it I entered an invalid argument. Is there another module I'm supposed to use (like r8169.o), or am I out of luck. It would seem if the Realtek driver is the same for either NIC (8139 or 8100), it would seem to me that the 8139.o module should work - but I'm probably over simplifying things. If there isn't a driver available, do I have any options that would allow me to use this new appliance? Thanks for any assistance. bpk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/
