I am learning the basics of networking and have stuck an old PI beside my
PIII. I have a NIC installed in each with a patch cable and have succesfully
insmoded or modprobed both computers once. The modprobe seems to do an insmod
as part of its operation. That was fine, i set up eth0 with
# ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
on one and "... 168.0.1 ..." on the other. ping worked fine in both
directions.
I shut them down to put everything back together. After the reboot neither
ifconfig, modprobe, or insmod would work (in that order). It is like some
remnant of the original modprobe command was stored in a config file, but not
enough to set the driver up properly. Nothing shows up in "lsmod", cat
/proc/interrupts, and this is the output of "lspci -v"
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139 (rev 10)
Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RT8139
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
I/O ports at e400 [size=256]
Memory at ec000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
I am baffled, the driver being used was the "8139too" one supplied with 8.2.
Although there is a better driver on Donalds site, this works well enough for
a patch cable with this "8139too" driver as the differences he quotes appear
more cosmetic than anything unless the connection is high volume.
I have never done any networking in the past, this is my first crack at it.
First off, what do i have to purge? What's got stuck and why? Then where is
another "i did it this way for mandrake 8.2" readme/HOWTO/helpfile?
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