On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 20:20 +0530, amartyo banerjee wrote: > You mean the ethernet card pretends to be a RealTek RTL8139D but none > of the kernel drivers work with it, neither 'rtl8139' or '8139too' > (don't remember the exact names) ? That's very interesting to learn. > The card masquerades as the 8139 but not well enough for the drivers > to work!
It is incredibly frustrating. When I last tried it, I used ndiswrapper on the Windows XP driver under Ubuntu and got it working, though the system identified it as 'wlan0'. lspci reported it to be a Silan Microsystems 92031 (2031) chipset, though the windows drivers said (in the Windows Device Manager) "Realtek RTL8139d Network Adapter" or something like that. This is with a card from Zebronics, though I later found that others were reporting that it is also a problem with cards from Intex. Apparently, these are cheap fakes whose drivers make them seem like they're Realtek cards. There's a label on the chip saying it's an RTL8139D chipset, but it's all lies. > Anyway, the whole thing is academic if Ubuntu works with the wireless > card without problems and you are planning to install that. Eventually that is what I did, though now I face problems of a different kind (video), but I really wanted to use Debian. Ah well, maybe at a later time. Thanks for your help. P.S. In case, you wanted to see what the ethernet card I mentioned looks like, here are links: (images are each over 200 KB in size) http://www.arjie.com/images/zebronics-rtl8139D-fake-underside.jpg http://www.arjie.com/images/zebronics-rtl8139D-fake.jpg -- Regards, Roshan George <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [email protected] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
