[realtek] Mandrake 7.2 & Redhat 7.0 don't detect DFE-530Tx+

Ed Glazer glazered@msu.edu
Tue, 27 Feb 2001 03:12:36 -0500


I'm building a new system, tried using the iso's for redhat 7 with the
2.2.16-22 kernel and mandrake 7.2 with the 2.2.17-21mdksecure kernel.
Neither system will detect or allow installation of my pair of D-Link
dfe-530Tx+ nic's using the rtl8139 driver).  lspci - reveals:

00:0b.0	Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc: Unknown device 1300 (rev 10)
		Subsystem: D-Link System Inc: Unknown device 1301
		Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10
		I/O ports at d800
		Memory at df000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
		Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

and yet, when I try to insmod rtl8139, I get this:

/lib/modules/__kernel Version__/net/rtl8139.o: init_module: Device or
resource busy

I also tried using variations of "insmod rtl8139 io=0xd800", but it would
not accept the parameters. I made sure my BIOS was set to non-pnp.  I've
tried slots 2-5 with each card on its own, to no avail.

Any suggestions or comments would be welcome.  Please send replies to me
instead of the list.