pats
12th July 2005, 07:31 PM
OK so heres my problem...
I've recently bought a Dlink DGE 528T (gigabit ethernet card) and a lovely little netgear gigabit switch. i was all raring to go at lightning speed when FC3 doesn't find the card. i've hunted arround on the net for help on this. apparently the realtek 8169 drivers work with this card but i'm having no luck yet.
i've also got the source for the drivers but only for the 2.4.x kernel and not 2.6.x kernels.
all a bit ****ty realy.
if anyone has got any ideas why i can't get it working and can talk me through how i should be installing it as a r8169 please let me know because i'm lost
chears
pat :mad:
update:
i can see the card using lspci
...
00:08.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc: Unknown device 4300 (rev 10)
Subsystem: D-Link System Inc: Unknown device 4300
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 7
I/O ports at a000 [size=256]
Memory at e6005000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
...
modprobe r8169 eth1 irq=7 io=0xa000
comes up with no errors (well nothing at all)
added to modprobe.conf:
alias eth1 r8169
options r8169 irq=7 io=0xa000
when when i do lsmod there is nothing using r8169.
very confused
why won't it work. i must be doing something stupid.
haven't tried a manual network card install for ages since kudzu came along but it never used to be this hard.
I've recently bought a Dlink DGE 528T (gigabit ethernet card) and a lovely little netgear gigabit switch. i was all raring to go at lightning speed when FC3 doesn't find the card. i've hunted arround on the net for help on this. apparently the realtek 8169 drivers work with this card but i'm having no luck yet.
i've also got the source for the drivers but only for the 2.4.x kernel and not 2.6.x kernels.
all a bit ****ty realy.
if anyone has got any ideas why i can't get it working and can talk me through how i should be installing it as a r8169 please let me know because i'm lost
chears
pat :mad:
update:
i can see the card using lspci
...
00:08.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc: Unknown device 4300 (rev 10)
Subsystem: D-Link System Inc: Unknown device 4300
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 7
I/O ports at a000 [size=256]
Memory at e6005000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
...
modprobe r8169 eth1 irq=7 io=0xa000
comes up with no errors (well nothing at all)
added to modprobe.conf:
alias eth1 r8169
options r8169 irq=7 io=0xa000
when when i do lsmod there is nothing using r8169.
very confused
why won't it work. i must be doing something stupid.
haven't tried a manual network card install for ages since kudzu came along but it never used to be this hard.
