[realtek] Realtek 8139 module problems

kreutpet@student.ethz.ch kreutpet@student.ethz.ch
Sun, 21 May 2000 18:57:49 +0430 (GMT+04:30)


Hello network gurus,

i am trying to install a PCI Ethernet controller: Realtek 8139.
My distribution is SUSE6.4 and kernel version is 2.2.14.
I am loading my driver module within the /etc/conf.modules by alias "eth0 rtl8139" (version 1.08).
In my BIOS i diabled the PnP OS.

As you can see in my attached output everything seems to be OK.

The Problem is that my ACTIVITY LED is blinking but my LINK LED is dark.
I am not able to receive packages.

What could be the problem??

When i start with windows 2000 the card is working well. 

Here some information:
# cat /proc/interrupts
           CPU0
  0:      19529          XT-PIC  timer
  1:        637          XT-PIC  keyboard
  2:          0          XT-PIC  cascade
  7:          1          XT-PIC  soundblaster
  9:         27          XT-PIC  eth0
 12:       1102          XT-PIC  PS/2 Mouse
 13:          1          XT-PIC  fpu
 14:       5775          XT-PIC  ide0
 15:         13          XT-PIC  ide1
NMI:          0

bash-2.03# cat /proc/pci
PCI devices found:
  Bus  0, device   0, function  0:
    Host bridge: Acer Labs M1541 Aladdin V (rev 4).
      Slow devsel.  Master Capable.  Latency=32.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xd0000000 [0xd0000000].
  Bus  0, device   1, function  0:
    PCI bridge: Acer Labs M5243 AGP (rev 4).
      Slow devsel.  Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=12.
  Bus  0, device   2, function  0:
    USB Controller: Acer Labs M5237 USB (rev 3).
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ 10.  Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Max Lat=80.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe7000000 [0xe7000000].
  Bus  0, device   7, function  0:
    ISA bridge: Acer Labs M1533 Aladdin IV (rev 195).
      Medium devsel.  Master Capable.  No bursts.
  Bus  0, device  10, function  0:
    Ethernet controller: Realtek 8139 (rev 16).
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ 9.  Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=32.Max Lat=64.
      I/O at 0xe000 [0xe001].
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe7001000 [0xe7001000].
  Bus  0, device  15, function  0:
    IDE interface: Acer Labs M5229 TXpro (rev 193).
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=4.
      I/O at 0xf000 [0xf001].
  Bus  1, device   0, function  0:
    VGA compatible controller: NVidia Unknown device (rev 4).
      Vendor id=10de. Device id=20.
      Medium devsel.  Fast back-to-back capable.  IRQ 9.  Master Capable.  Latency=32.  Min Gnt=5.Max Lat=1.
      Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe4000000 [0xe4000000].
      Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe6000000 [0xe6000008].

bash-2.03# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
192.168.99.0    0.0.0.0         255.255.255.0   U     0      0        0 eth0
127.0.0.0       0.0.0.0         255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 lo
0.0.0.0         192.168.99.10   0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0

bash-2.03# ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:48:54:6E:6C:99
          inet addr:192.168.99.100  Bcast:192.168.99.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:28 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
          Interrupt:9 Base address:0xe000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:3924  Metric:1
          RX packets:65 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:65 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

#dmesg
Linux version 2.2.14 (root@garp) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #4 Sat May 20 15:26:35 CEST 2000
Detected 400918197 Hz processor.
ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi
ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 801.18 BogoMIPS
Memory: 192656k/196544k available (1232k kernel code, 412k reserved, 2196k data, 48k init, 0k bigmem)
Dentry hash table entries: 32768 (order 6, 256k)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 262144 (order 8, 1024k)
Page cache hash table entries: 65536 (order 6, 256k)
CPU: L1 I Cache: 32K  L1 D Cache: 32K
Enabling new style K6 write allocation for 191 Mb
CPU: AMD AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor stepping 0c
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb5b0
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 262144 bhash 65536)
Starting kswapd v 1.5
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP]
parport_probe: failed
parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present.
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.12)
js: Joystick driver v1.2.15 (c) 1999 Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30
ide: Assuming 40MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 78
ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: IBM-DTTA-351010, ATA DISK drive
hdc: CR-2801TE, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdd: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-6402B, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: IBM-DTTA-351010, 9671MB w/466kB Cache, CHS=1232/255/63, UDMA(33)
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
scsi : 1 host.
  Vendor: MITSUMI   Model: CR-2801TE         Rev: 1.10
  Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02
  Vendor: TOSHIBA   Model: CD-ROM XM-6402B   Rev: 1008
  Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02
scsi : detected 2 SCSI generics total.
PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling)
TCP compression code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
PPP line discipline registered.
SLIP: version 0.8.4-NET3.019-NEWTTY (dynamic channels, max=256).
CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California.
SLIP linefill/keepalive option.
Partition check:
 hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 >
NTFS version 990411
Checking ReiserFS transaction log (device 03:06) ...
Replayed 0 transactions in 0 seconds
Journaling sponsored by MP3.com
Item handlers sponsored by Ecila.com
ReiserFS version 3.5.18
VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 48k freed
Adding Swap: 104416k swap-space (priority -1)
Checking ReiserFS transaction log (device 03:08) ...
Replayed 0 transactions in 0 seconds
ReiserFS version 3.5.18
Checking ReiserFS transaction log (device 03:07) ...
Replayed 0 transactions in 0 seconds
ReiserFS version 3.5.18
Serial driver version 4.27 with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled
rtl8139.c:v1.08 6/25/99 Donald Becker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/rtl8139.html
rtl8139.c:v1.08 6/25/99 Donald Becker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/rtl8139.html
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xe000, IRQ 9, 00:48:54:6e:6c:99.
lockd_up: no pid, 2 users??
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP]
parport_probe: failed
parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present.
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
SB 3.01 detected OK (220)
ESS chip ES1868 detected
Trying to open MFT
cat uses obsolete /proc/pci interface