I'm having a hella time getting this driver to work. I haven't been able to get a realtek card to work on a kernel above 2.4.3. The default driver that comes with the kernel (8139too.c) compiles fine and at boot of the new kernel has no problem initializing the ethernet card. However, once I'm booted up and logged in, I cannot communicate with anything. It's like the network cable is unplugged. I can ping localhost, and can ping the local IP address, but I cannot ping any other host, whether it's directly connected or on the internet. I tried d/l the rtl8139.c driver from scyld.com, but I cannot seem to compile it properly without a bunch of errors of missing files in the /usr/include/asm directoty.
Any pointers?
