Bug 13183

Summary:	1.4_rc2: L7VMM on-board Realtek 8139 unusable
Product:	Gentoo Release Media	Reporter:	Hugh McDonald <hugh>
Component:	Everything	Assignee:	Tobias Eichert <viz>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	lostlogic
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Hugh McDonald 2003-01-03 15:11:20 UTC

The EliteGroup motherboard model L7VMM has an on-board
Realtek 8139 Ethernet controller.  The linux kernel on
gentoo-grp-athlon-1.4_rc2.iso recognizes the NIC and
it can be configured (inet addr, etc), but when I ping
another host, the packets simply vanish -- /sbin/ifconfig
reports zero packets sent/received, and /sbin/arp shows
no hardware address.

I also tried the Debian/woody kernels (2.2.20 and 2.4.18-bf2.4),
and both work correctly.  There is some slight mention on
kernel-traffic of a problem with the 8139too driver -- it
works when compiled into the kernel but not as a module --
but nothing recent, and no fix mentioned.  There is also a
driver rtl8139.c (the homepage has flames), but no mention
of it on kernel-traffic.

My fix (for the moment) is to load the stage-3 tarball from
gentoo-grp-athlon-1.4_rc2.iso (formatting the partitions as
ext2), then boot the Debian/woody 2.4.18-bf2.4 kernel, and load
it into /boot (and its modules into /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4).
I then create a static binary of lilo-22.3.4 (on a RedHat 6.x
box), copy it to /sbin, and configure/install lilo to boot
the 2.4.18-bf2.4 image.  Ugly, but at least I can then connect
to the internet, and emerge (and emerge, and ...).

Comment 1 Tobias Eichert 2003-01-06 08:08:37 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 8495 ***