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Ethernet LAN card with MDK 10.1 [solved]


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Have been hoping for a response, Devries. I have by now tried MDK 10.1, MDV 2006, PCLinuxOS and Puppy Linux, all of which give the 8139too as an option but then put me in an endless loop; and Knoppix 3.3, which simply says, "No supported network card found".

 

Might something be the matter with this particular example of the card? I am able to connect through Windows, but I have never reached a speed over 11 kb/sec although the ISP promises "up to 75". This may of course be the fault of the ISP, which runs faster than I can chase it. I have asked my hardware chap to bring a card not based on Realtek stuff, but he too is playing hard to get.

 

For the present, then, I can do nothing but look for these "options":

 

debug

multicast_filter_limit

media

full_duplex

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I'd like to thank everyone who tried to help. I'm still where I was, but I generally manage somehow to get to where I want to go. Thanks again.

 

Mukul Dube

(as Google, window to the world, knows me)

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In my last post I'd actually said that the problem had NOT been solved. Now it is solved. At various places on the Net I saw, from what people had said, that the behaviour of the 8139 ethernet card was unpredictable: some examples worked perfectly, others worked less than perfectly, and still others would not work at all. These were supposedly identical. When I changed to a D-Link card, it was recognised immediately.

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Glad you managed to get the D-LINK. In hindsight, I should have mentioned this to you (unless I didn't somewhere in this post). I have a system that has an onboard Realtek 8139, which I've disabled, and coincidently, I too have a D-LINK card in this machine :P

 

In fact, I've never even tried to use the on-board card! But I do know of the problems associated with them and that you can normally get them working with a bit of trouble.

 

Glad that you managed to swap the card at least, and now spend more time in Linux :beer:

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No big deal, Devries. You may have set me on the right track with the lspci output -- or then again, you may not have been able to do that. These 8139s are crazy fellows. Ian, you're easily the biggest contributor to the -- whoosh -- 111 posts here, which must be some sort of record, and you say "with a bit of trouble"? A bit? We have a true master of understatement here.

 

I did begin properly to rebuild my MDV 2006, but I'm stuck again: no write permission for $HOME. Devil knows how it happened. I guess a failsafe followed by chown or chmod will be needed. In Windows now, alas.

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Easy to overcome. I'll assume username "ian". Log into the system as root then do this (if GUI appears CTRL-ALT-F1 to get a console prompt and then):

 

chown -R ian:ian /home/ian

 

replace "ian" with your username to fix the write permissions.

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I did a chown -R user /home/user because chown -R user.user /home/user failed. It would, I suppose, since I used a full stop rather than a colon. Now to see what I run into on acount of shoving in user rather than user:user -- but Adobe Reader, which didn't run earlier, is now running, and thanks to you I have a heavy weapon in reserve.

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