Next LUG meet: 9 Nov 2003 around 4 pm - VJTI -------------------------------------------- On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 00:07, abhishek patel wrote: > Next LUG meet: 9 Nov 2003 around 4 pm - VJTI > -------------------------------------------- > > > Anybody having idea whether RED HAT 9 supports Realtek 8139C NIC as > < >
Frankly is that some kind of joke. RTL 8139 series has been supported by linux for very long time now. I just took a look at copyright notice. In 1997 initial version was written by donald becker. driver name is 8139too I am currently using two RTL 8139c cards on my machine. dmesg output: ------------------------------------------------ eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xcc8b2000, 00:50:fc:27:7e:9f, IRQ 5 eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C' PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:11.0 divert: allocating divert_blk for eth1 eth1: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xcc8b4000, 00:e0:4c:77:2c:17, IRQ 11 eth1: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C' --------------------------------------------------- There have been no major issues getting it detected and using it. > > > > > > > References > > Visible links > Hidden links: > 1. 3D"http://clients.rediff.com/signature/track_sig.asp"; -- supreet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
