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Network on 8887

post #1 of 8
5/9/03 at 9:26am
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I can't seem to get a working network on the 8887. The internal realtek and the internal wireless both give me these messages in syslog.
NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
eth0: Tx timeout! Resetting card. ALLOCFID=0123, TXCOMPLFID=0121, EVSTAT=808b.

Any ideas? I am using suse 8.1
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post #2 of 8
5/9/03 at 12:17pm

Modules

Sound like it is not loading the correct module for the realteck.

The module should be 8139too and mii should load with it too.
Type lsmod as root to check the current loaded modules and uses the modutils to add or remove ( insmod, rmmod, modprobe, depmod). Hope that helps.
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post #3 of 8
5/9/03 at 8:49pm
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I've already tried that. It loads the 8139too and the mii but it still doesn't work. I know the network card works, cause I have had winXP Pro on it. What concerns me is why am I getting the TX errors on the card. I also have a Harris something or other wireless built in to it and it doesn't work either. I have a suspicion that somehow the two network cards are fighting with each other. If I run iwconfig it says there is a wireless access point and returns the mac address of the access point, which lets me know that it is getting that info from the network, but then it gives tx errors.
Interesting side note. I just installed knoppix 3.2 and both the wireless and the realtek are working. Guess I will just stick with knoppix.

Thanks for the help.

Mike
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post #4 of 8
6/26/03 at 4:52pm

knoppix 3.2

I tried knoppix 3.2, but can't get it to load without using the failsafe mode. I know nothing about linux, but figured I'd start with this. When I try to boot from the CD, it says something about a pci device not being configured due to conflicts, and stops while autoconfiguring devices. I have an 8886. If I start up in failsafe, it doesn't configure the network card, and I don't have a clue how to do anything manually. If you got it to start on your 8887, did you use any boot scripts? I really would like to learn about this. My local sysad uses it for retrieving data from dead computers. We use dell laptops with win2000 with NTFS and he had no problem starting the computer up, reading the data off the hard drive, and burning it to a disk using the installed cdrw. Running from a cd is awesome. Any help starting it on my 8886 would be gratly appreciated.
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post #5 of 8
6/26/03 at 7:29pm
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i had no problem getting Knoppix 3.2 to load in failsafe and networking on my 8887. There is a little utility in the menu somewhere that will configure your network for you but I am not in front of that machine now to look and see what it is called.

Mike
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post #6 of 8
6/27/03 at 11:49am
So you couldn't get it to work without failsafe either? I tried to boot by disabling every piece of hardware specified in the cheatcodes. Still locked up at the same place. Is there any way to find out what is making it hang like a log file or something. I also looked for the network utility and can't find a thing. At least I know it's not just mine. Thanks
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post #7 of 8
6/27/03 at 1:41pm
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Those utilities are /usr/sbin/netcardconfig and /usr/sbin/wlcardconfig. These utilities are on the start menu until you do a hd install. The only way I could get mine to load was in fail safe. Everything is ok that way except the firewire and usb don't work, but I think those can be made to work i just don't know how.
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post #8 of 8
8/13/03 at 12:54am
I am struggling with getting my wireless card recognized. When I do a lspci I don't see a reference to it, should I? I did compile modular support for Hermes and Prism2.5 into my kernel. However the kernel did not recognize eth1 as being my card. In dmesg I get two lines indicating the driver was loaded:
hermes.c: blah
orinoco.c blah

The blah was just the date, author name, etc. What should my next steps be?

David
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