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RealTek RTL8100 BL NIC Driver
by Brad Klinghagen
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I'm configuring a new firewall appliance (an Acrosser AR-M9952 network
appliance/embedded PC), and it uses the RealTek RTL8100 BL NIC driver. To try and determine what NIC driver to use, I consulted their website which indicated that for all the various OSes, the driver for rtl8100 xL and rtl8139 xl are the same. So based on that I thought to try either 8139cp.o or 8139too.o (along with crc32.o and mii.o ) modules. Initially I loaded both (8139cp and 8139too), and the system gave a message indicating to try 8139too.o module, which is what I've done. The system goes through the boot up process fine, and it seems to load the drivers because each of the NICs (three of them) are identified by ETH0, ETH1, ETH2, their MAC addresses, and assigned IRQs. To assign IP addresses, ETH0 uses DHCP to pick up a static IP from my ISP, and the other two have static IPs. DHCP never picks up the address from the ISP, and when I try to ping any of the IP addresses from the system itself, a message appears stating that it I entered an invalid argument. Is there another module I'm supposed to use (like r8169.o), or am I out of luck. It would seem if the Realtek driver is the same for either NIC (8139 or 8100), it would seem to me that the 8139.o module should work - but I'm probably over simplifying things. If there isn't a driver available, do I have any options that would allow me to use this new appliance? Thanks for any assistance. bpk ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/ |
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Re: RealTek RTL8100 BL NIC Driver
by Erich Titl
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Brad
Brad Klinghagen wrote: > I'm configuring a new firewall appliance (an Acrosser AR-M9952 network > appliance/embedded PC), and it uses the RealTek RTL8100 BL NIC driver. To > try and determine what NIC driver to use, I consulted their website which > indicated that for all the various OSes, the driver for rtl8100 xL and > rtl8139 xl are the same. So based on that I thought to try either 8139cp.o > or 8139too.o (along with crc32.o and mii.o ) modules. Initially I loaded > both (8139cp and 8139too), and the system gave a message indicating to try > 8139too.o module, which is what I've done. > > > > The system goes through the boot up process fine, and it seems to load the > drivers because each of the NICs (three of them) are identified by ETH0, > ETH1, ETH2, their MAC addresses, and assigned IRQs. > > > > To assign IP addresses, ETH0 uses DHCP to pick up a static IP from my ISP, > and the other two have static IPs. DHCP never picks up the address from the > ISP, and when I try to ping any of the IP addresses from the system itself, > a message appears stating that it I entered an invalid argument. It might help if you posted the original error along with the output of lsmod and dmesg. > > > > Is there another module I'm supposed to use (like r8169.o), or am I out of > luck. It would seem if the Realtek driver is the same for either NIC (8139 > or 8100), it would seem to me that the 8139.o module should work - but I'm > probably over simplifying things. yes, the Realtek page suggests that. They also say, that the driver is in the current kernel distribution > > > > If there isn't a driver available, do I have any options that would allow me > to use this new appliance? A quick check might be to load a current knoppix disk and see if it can use the NICs. If it can't chances are they are badly supported. I looked at the 8139too source, they reference the 8100B model, so this should work. cheers Erich ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/ |
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Re: RealTek RTL8100 BL NIC Driver
by Robert K Coffman Jr. -Info From Data Corp.
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I've run into one situation where dhcpcd would not pull an address from the
ISP and pump worked fine. Perhaps you are running into something like that rather than a driver problem? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: leaf-user@... https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user Support Request -- http://leaf-project.org/ |
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