[realtek] Rx count stays 0

[Donald Becker]

On Tue, 23 May 2000, Gabriel Enescu wrote:

> I have successfully used a D-Link 530 TX+ card to connect to the
> Internet through ADSL in Windows NT. Then I tried the same in Linux
> using the rtl8139 driver (a version as of summer of  '99 which shipped
> with the card). Yet in Slackware 7.0 (kernel 2.2.13) and
> RedHat 6.0 (kernel 2.2.5) the ifconfig reported running Tx count but Rx

Hmmm, curious.  I don't recall a driver bug which would cause this problem.

> firewall rules were active. I tried to compile the latest version of the
> driver but there are missing .h files in 2.2.13 source (pci-scan.h,
> kern_compat.h). Am I missing something ?

You must get pci-scan.[ch] and kern_compat.h from the same FTP directory as
the driver file.

See
  http://www.scyld.com/network/updates.html

Donald Becker				becker@scyld.com
Scyld Computing Corporation
410 Severn Ave. Suite 210
Annapolis MD 21403