Subject: RE: Need Help with FE551 / Realtek ethernet
From: Andy Peters (apeters@noao.edu)
Date: Fri Jul 28 2000 - 13:08:50 MDT
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erik Burns [mailto:eiburns@rice.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 4:37 PM
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Need Help with FE551 / Realtek ethernet
>
>
> OK, I just recently installed YDL 1.2 and ran into a problem... any help
> would be appreciated.
>
> I have an FE551 card from MacSense. I went to their website, and
> they said
> that it uses the RealTek 8139 chipset, and that an 8139 driver should work
> for linux. The installer for YDL had, as one of the options, RealTek
> RTL8129/8139. I tried selecting this, and got the error message:
>
> "I can't find the device anywhere on your system!"
>
> I ended up telling it that I had no ethernet card and skipping
> that part of
> the installation. Does anyone know if YDL can run this card, and if so,
> what I need to do to get it running? It's not a hardware problem, because
> the card works great under MacOS 8.5 (with the FE551 driver).
I bought an SMC card (EZNET 10/100) with that chip on it. I put it in my
B+W G3/300, which also has built-in ethernet (I'm routing from the sprint
wireless broadband). The default YDL install doesn't have support for this
chip, and the module wasn't compiled, either.
The source for the driver is included with the Linux sources.
It turns out that Don Becker, author of most of the Ethernet card drivers,
has a wealth of info posted at:
http://www.scyld.com/network/ and the specific info for this chip is at
http://www.scyld.com/network/rtl8139.html
Information on how to compile and install the module is here:
http://www.scyld.com/expert/modules.html
works for me!
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Andy Peters
Sr Electrical Engineer
National Optical Astronomy Observatories
950 N Cherry Ave
Tucson, AZ 85719
520 318 8191
apeters@noao.edu
"A sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"
--Arthur C. Clarke
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