James <wireless <at> tampabay.rr.com> writes:
> eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0x2000, 00:90:f5:2b:cb:18, IRQ 11 > eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/1839D' > <snip> > 'eth0: link down' Well forget all of that other conjecture. I installed a pcmcia ethernet card manufacture = dynex. Since it uses a realtek chip, I have no problems getting the dynex to work as eth1. Relevant portions of dmesg: 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27 eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0x2000, 00:90:f5:2b:cb:13, IRQ 11 eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D' eth1: RealTek RTL8139 at 0x2400, 00:13:46:37:17:c0, IRQ 5 eth1: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C' [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map [drm] Loading R200 Microcode [drm] writeback test succeeded in 1 usecs eth0: link down eth1: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1 eth1: link down eth1: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1 What's going on? We had another clevo portable running gentoo and this happened about (3) weeks ago. I just assumed the ethernet chip went bad. (2) indentical realtek chips on (2) different clevo portable going bad in a (3) week period? Very suspicious, statistically. this onboard realtek chips works when I pull the pccard ethernet chip and reboot and use the onboard ethernet chip. Ideas? james -- [email protected] mailing list
