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Andrew Akehurst | 23 Jan 22:26
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r8169 driver - no net connection and hang at shutdown

Hi,

I'm having some trouble with r8169 and Linux kernel 2.6.15.1 getting my 
Realtek 8169 ethernet controller to work. This is the gigabit 
ethernet-capable embedded version which is integrated into a Foxconn 
925A01-8EKRS2 motherboard.

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post, so I apologise if this 
is more appropriate to linux-kernel.

Whenever the system boots, the r8169 driver does not pick up the MAC
address for the card; it reports the MAC addrress as being
FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF. (I have also tried various 2.6.12, 2.6.13, 2.6.14
kernels with the same experience). My first thought was "broken chip", 
but this box has similar issues with other network cards which I'll 
mention later.

When I run ifconfig, this reports:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
              inet addr:192.168.0.9  Bcast:192.168.255.255  Mask:255.255.0.0
              UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
              RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:4294967290 overruns:0 frame:0
              TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
              collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
              RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
              Interrupt:21 Base address:0x4800

The IP address has been assigned statically in /etc/network/interfaces
as I don't use DHCP (and I doubt DHCP would currently work anyway). If I
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sagar naik | 15 Nov 02:09
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Realtek Problem in Redhat Linux3

Hi ,
Today in the early evening ,I wrote you an email for the the RTL1389 NIC 
iisue . PLease ignore this ,because ,I have resolved the issue . Actually 
the PCI interface of the card was faulty .and that was teh reason the card 
was not getting configured by Linux /Kudzu.
Once I corrected the issue ,the card was installed in no time by Kudzu 
itself,No driver was required.
Sorry to bother you and thanks for the support from this mailing list .

Regards
Sagar Naik
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sagar naik | 14 Nov 22:33
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Realtek card not getting installed on Redhat Linux3

Hi ,
I am working on RedHat Linux 3 .and just brought  the Realtek NIC card to 
configure a Router on the Linux Box. Here are the problems which I am facing 
.

1. The RTL 1389 is not been recognized by the Kudzu utility .
2. I tried to install the /LINUX/RTL1389.C  file  using the Makefile command 
as specified in the Readme.txt ,But I get errors like" cc:  not found" ,"ld: 
not found " and many other commands not found .
3.Then I tried running the commands at the bottom of the driver file ,which 
also gives many syntax errors .
4.I also downloaded the driver from syscld.com website ,but it is also not 
working .

All the compilers and Kernel RPMs are installed on the system .

Can you please help me on this .

Regards
Sagar Naik
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Joao Dias | 11 May 13:50
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Complete kernel crash with Ovislink Fast Ethernet Cardbus 10/100


Dear sirs, 

I am just reporting a problem wich I can no longer debug because I have
not the appropriate skills nor the time to do it(actually
it consumed me quite time to trace the problem to this point)

The problem happens when using the PCMCIA Ovislink card at 100Mb/s with
linux (I just bought it new),
and it does not allow the use of remote X sessions in my notebook, wich
is an old model but that is
actually referred by Ovislink as one of the models they tested the card
in.

This can be a problem with the driver 8139too, the PCMCIA subsystem or
the kernel itself.

How I reach a complete crash of my notebook:

Connect two linux hosts with a cross-cable (in my case both with
Libranet 2.8.1, but saw it happens with others)
One of my hosts is a notebook Toshiba Portege 300CT, did not test
others.

Both kernel are 2.4.21 (doesn't matter they are Libranet original or
recompiled)

After configuring network and firewall hosts.allow, and adding xhost+
neptuno in Toshiba...
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Butch Kemper | 4 Jul 00:08

Probme with Realtek RTL8139 Driver


I have a debian linux system with the 2.2.20 kernel with two realtek 
rtl8139 ethernet cards installed.  I have downloaded and compiled the 
latest version of rtl8139, v1.24:

Jun 30 10:17:20 whitehills kernel: rtl8139.c:v1.24 11/13/2003 Donald 
Becker, becker <at> scyld.com.
Jun 30 10:17:20 whitehills kernel:  http://www.scyld.com/network/rtl8139.html
Jun 30 10:17:20 whitehills kernel: eth0: RealTek RTL8139C Fast Ethernet at 
0xec00, IRQ 11, 00:30:4f:1e:c6:a8.
Jun 30 10:17:20 whitehills kernel: eth1: RealTek RTL8139C Fast Ethernet at 
0xe800, IRQ 10, 00:50:22:b1:a4:2b.

The system functions as a router for a wireless network with the access 
point and the customer radios/routers on the eth1 card.  I experience the 
following problems:

	1.  The eth1 card will stop passing traffic.  I have
	    a cron task that runs every 5 minutes to ping
	    the access point and if the ping fails, the eth1
	    interfaces is stopped and then started.  Traffic
	    begins to flow again and the kern.log will
	    sometimes contain this message:

	    Jul  2 19:30:19 whitehills kernel: eth1: Oversized
	    Ethernet frame, status 6d1ff70b!

	2.  Sometimes the kernel will do a panic halt with an
	    error message on the console about trying to kill
            the idle task. The system then requires a manual
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Clive Nicolson | 3 Sep 05:36
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problem with rtl8139.o v1.23 (fwd)

Under heavy? load I see the following messages in the log, the card seems
to stop transmitting until a ifconfig down/up (which I did at least once 
during the log). I do not see the problem with 8139too.o v0.9.24 .

Clive

Sep  3 12:57:06 gateway kernel: pci-scan.c:v1.11 8/31/2002  Donald Becker <becker <at> scyld.com> http://www.scyld.com/linux/drivers.html
Sep  3 12:57:06 gateway kernel: rtl8139.c:v1.23 3/10/2003 Donald Becker, becker <at> scyld.com.
Sep  3 12:57:06 gateway kernel:  http://www.scyld.com/network/rtl8139.html
Sep  3 12:57:06 gateway kernel: eth0: RealTek RTL8139C Fast Ethernet at 0xe800, IRQ 10, 00:05:1c:03:ff:b4.

Sep  3 13:02:55 gateway kernel: rtl8139.c:v1.23 3/10/2003 Donald Becker, becker <at> scyld.com.
Sep  3 13:02:55 gateway kernel:  http://www.scyld.com/network/rtl8139.html
Sep  3 13:02:55 gateway kernel: eth0: RealTek RTL8139C Fast Ethernet at 0xe800, IRQ 10, 00:05:1c:03:ff:b4.
Sep  3 13:02:55 gateway insmod: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.4.18-3custom/modules.dep
Sep  3 13:02:55 gateway kernel: eth0: Setting half-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 0000.

Sep  3 13:03:50 gateway kernel: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status b508a5ea.
Sep  3 13:03:50 gateway kernel: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status b108a5ea.
Sep  3 13:03:50 gateway last message repeated 2 times
Sep  3 13:03:50 gateway kernel: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status b608a5ea.
Sep  3 13:03:50 gateway kernel: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status b108a5ea.
Sep  3 13:03:50 gateway kernel: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status b208a5ea.
Sep  3 13:03:50 gateway kernel: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status b508a5ea.
Sep  3 13:03:50 gateway kernel: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status b608a5ea.
Sep  3 13:03:50 gateway kernel: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status b108a3fa.
Sep  3 13:03:50 gateway kernel: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status b208a5ea.
Sep  3 13:03:50 gateway kernel: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status b308a5ea.
Sep  3 13:03:50 gateway kernel: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status b208a5ea.
Sep  3 13:03:50 gateway kernel: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status b608a5ea.
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Eric Pfaffhauser | 11 Jun 16:59
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realtek bug: rtl8139.c v1.23 and RTL8139D chip

hello donald becker

i have nearly the same problems like hassan <at> electdp.iut.ac.ir.
my kernel version is 2.4.4. i use a network card from www.claxan.com
equiped with a RTL8139D chip. i have downloaded the 
netdrivers-3.4-package from your site and successfully installed
it on my linux-box. the card is not sharing any interrupt with some
other device.

if i transmit larger files by ftp, the network apapter
seems to stop working. i always get an "Abnormal interrupt, status 
00000021.". pinging to another host does not work any more. pinging
to myself via my ip or 127.0.0.1 still does work.
there are no other abnormal interrupts except the one with status
00000021. the abnormal interrupt activated by pulling out the
ethernet cable and inserting it again is managed correctly, but does
not recover "Abnormal interrupt, status 00000021." only unloading the
network-drivers or bringing the interface down and again up solves
the problem.
how is it possiple to create a status RxOK (0x01) and RxUnderrun (0x20)
simultaneously?

thanx
eRiC
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Celso Tadao Suzuki | 17 Apr 22:35
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eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame, status 1dea0888!

Hi,

I have a box with a Biostar MB M7VKD with on board network chipset
RTL8139.
When I use it connect in a HUB, the and connect with another box with
the same configuration, the data transfer is very, very slow, when I
connect them using a switch, it works fine. Well even with connect in a
switch sometimes happens the message "eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame,
status 1dea0888!" and the network is down, so I must do down the network
interface and up it again. I was using the version 1.08 and I upgrade it
to version 1.22 and the same thing happens.

Any suggestion ???

If you need more information, please let me know.

TIA

Celso Suzuki
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Lance Good | 5 Mar 20:20
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realtek-bug archives inaccessible

I wanted to access the realtek-bug archives to see if the issue I am having
has been previously reported, but the archives seem to be inaccessible.
Here is the message I get:

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  Not Found
  The requested URL /pipermail/realtek-bug/ was not found on this server.

  Apache/1.3.20 Sun Cobalt Server at www.scyld.com Port 80

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Apologies if I violated the conventions of the list (another reason I was
checking the archives).

Thanks,
Lance
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Simon Hartl | 3 Jan 12:54
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Network Interface hangs

Hi,

I have a machine with 3 RTL8139C interfaces (two are onboard, one is in
a PCI slot) acting as router an have the following problem:
when the machine is under heavy load (generated with iperf) the network
interface on the client side hangs (with no entries in the syslog)

The driver has the version v1.22.

I've run the rtl8139-diag with the -am and the -eee option and have
found the following differences:

working:
  Receiver configuration: Normal unicast and hashed multicast
     Rx FIFO threshold 256 bytes, maximum burst 256 bytes, 32KB ring

after it hangs:
  Receiver configuration: Reception disabled
     Rx FIFO threshold 16 bytes, maximum burst 16 bytes, 8KB ring

The logfile (network related) when the system comes up:
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rtl8139.c:v1.22 11/17/2002 Donald Becker, becker <at> scyld.com.
kernel:  http://www.scyld.com/network/rtl8139.html
kernel: eth0: RealTek RTL8139C Fast Ethernet at 0xc000, IRQ 11,
00:e0:7d:de:65:e5.
kernel: eth1: RealTek RTL8139C Fast Ethernet at 0xc400, IRQ 11,
00:30:18:77:11:e8.
kernel: eth2: RealTek RTL8139C Fast Ethernet at 0xc800, IRQ 10,
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hassan | 14 Dec 05:04
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rtl8139 problem in kernel 2.2.19

Hi List !

I have installed rtl8139.o modulde on linux 2.2.19 for my Dlink DFE-538 NIC
as eth0 .
but this machine dosnt work properly for 1 day :( the kernel is reporting this 
error messages :

Jun 25 01:38:53 HassanFire kernel: eth0: RealTek RTL8139C Fast Ethernet at 
0x6200, IRQ 10, 00:50:ba:88:ec:77. 
Jun 25 01:38:53 HassanFire kernel: ne2k-pci.c:v1.04 1/31/2001 D. Becker/P. 
Gortmaker 
Jun 25 01:38:53 HassanFire kernel:   http://www.scyld.com/network/ne2k-pci.html 
Jun 25 01:38:53 HassanFire kernel: eth1: Compex RL2000 found at 0x6100, IRQ 11, 
00:80:48:C2:93:D2. 
Jun 25 04:37:43 HassanFire kernel: eth0: Abnormal interrupt, status 00000051. 
Jun 25 04:37:43 HassanFire kernel: eth0: Abnormal interrupt, status 00000030. 
Jun 25 04:37:43 HassanFire kernel: eth0: Abnormal interrupt, status 00000021.

are there anybody having a solution for this bug .

THX alot :)
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