On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 kalyan kondurie wrote :
hi all,
My system has dual booting to Winxp and Redhat 8.0. I have cable net
connection. In windows i installed the drivers and able to connect to
inet. But in linux when i try to configure eth0, it gives an error
"unable to activate" and "eth0 cannot be found errors." Can aneone
help on this regard. I checked the /etc/sysconfig/networking and made
entries there. Should i have to insert the drivers again. In windohs,
the ethernet card it shows ids realtek 8139 and if i configure in
linux it is not detecting...
Thanx in advance.
Kalyan.
Hi,
Firstly check whether the 8139 module is loaded into the kernel.
For that, do " lsmod | grep 8139 " to see whether the module is
present.
If no module is present, then you need to compile the drivers and
insmod the module. There are two modules for the Realtek 8139 ethernet card. 8139too is the newer module while rtl8139 is the older one.
If you get something like 8139too or rtl8139 in the output, then the
module is present. Check which module you have, rtl8139 or 8139too.
Now do "cat /etc/modules.conf | grep eth0" to see whether you have an
entry for eth0. If you dont, add an entry like "alias eth0 8139too" in the "/etc/modules.conf" file depending on the module name. Probably the alias is missing from ur modules.conf file as your error says that it is unable to activate eth0.
Reboot and your internet should be up and working!
Affly, Bhaskar
p.s. Did u install the ethernet card after installing linux? Did kudzu run saying that a network card was detected? I run redhat 8 and debian with a realtek 8139 card and it works real smooth.
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