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post #1 of 3
6/12/03 at 12:14am
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the NIC on the 4060 wouldn't happen to be running on the 'PCMCIA' bus would it?
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post #2 of 3
6/18/03 at 2:38pm
can't tell you for sure; i don't have a 4060.

generally, though, nic's - traditional ethernet nics - don't run on the pcmcia bus... neither the 888x's nor the 56xx's have nics that are like that. i think the only reason that the wireless ethernet card runs off of pcmcia is because it's minipci, so it's a 'pluggable' network card that could be swapped for something else... i could be wrong though. somehow i doubt a built-in ethernet card would be pcmcia, though - it's a component of the laptop mainboard.

i'm not certain, though - give it a shot.
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post #3 of 3
9/20/03 at 12:47pm

confirmation --

I can confirm that my Sager 4060 is running with a Realtek 8139. It is NOT running on the PCMCIA bus...

To get it running, the kernel module '8139too' should be loaded.

Are you compiling a kernel from scratch, or adjusting a distro to make your ethernet card work?

If you are re-compiling a kernel, I'd recommend selecting under "Network Device Support" -> "Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)" -> the "RealTek RTL-8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support", and underneath that, selecting the options to "Support for uncommon RTL-8139 rev. K" and "Support for older RTL-8129/8130 boards".

If you're running a pre-compiled distro, as root try running this:

prompt# modprobe 8139too

You should then have access to /dev/eth0...

Good luck -- let me know how it goes!
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