RealTek 8139 config problems

Brian McCann bjmccann at gmail.com
Sat Aug 21 08:15:43 PDT 2004


I've had this exact problem, turned out to be a bad card.  It COULD be
a bad PCI slot, but more often then not, it's a bad card.  FYI: I've
also seen those cards set their MAC address to all Fs when they go bad
as well...really bazarr...that's happened to me several times (I've
got about 800 PCs using them)

Hope this helps,
--Brian

On Sat, 21 Aug 2004 01:10:32 -0600 (MDT), Chris Staskewicz
<cjs at math.utah.edu> wrote:
> I've searched the mailing archives for this problem (yeah, yeah, I know
> these cards stink, but I'm going for gold anyway).  I have 2 of these at
> rl0 and rl1.  The rl0 correctly auto dectects to "100baseTX full-duplex",
> however, the one at rl1 dectects to "10baseT/UPT".
> 
> Thus, I use "ifconfig" to set rl1 to "100baseTX full-duplex" and all is
> well.  However!!! if I then set the inet address to say 192.168.1.1 (or
> whatever), the card no longer transmits data (the LED light on the back of
> the card even goes out).  Also, the LED light on the HUB corresponding to
> this card starts blinking rapidly.
> 
> Any help?
> 
> Thank you very much,
> 
> Chris.
> 
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