[ltp] Kernel 2.4.20 and Realtek8139 with PCMCIA

[Dan Sawyer]

Adam,

I am running 2.4.20 on a thinkpad. I use

/sbin/modprobe 8139too

to load the driver. There is a dependence on mii.o as well.

I can't speak to irq 0. That seems strange.

Below is the module list

Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: PF
ppdev                   6828   0  (autoclean)
nfs                    80920   2  (autoclean)
ide-cd                 33700   0  (autoclean)
cdrom                  33728   0  (autoclean) [ide-cd]
cs46xx                 62896   0  (autoclean)
ac97_codec             13672   0  (autoclean) [cs46xx]
soundcore               6468   3  (autoclean) [cs46xx]
8139too                18088   1
mii                     3912   0  [8139too]
vmnet                  23496   4
parport_pc             19044   0
parport                37152   0  [ppdev parport_pc]
vmmon                  27540   0
nfsd                   80112   8  (autoclean)
lockd                  58704   1  (autoclean) [nfs nfsd]
sunrpc                 81564   1  (autoclean) [nfs nfsd lockd]
autofs                 13364   0  (autoclean) (unused)
apm                    13284   2
ds                      8712   2
yenta_socket           12960   2
pcmcia_core            54880   0  [ds yenta_socket]
iptable_filter          2412   0  (autoclean) (unused)
ip_tables              14872   1  [iptable_filter]
nls_iso8859-1           3516   1  (autoclean)
nls_cp437               5116   1  (autoclean)
vfat                   13100   1  (autoclean)
fat                    38808   0  (autoclean) [vfat]
mousedev                5524   1
keybdev                 2944   0  (unused)
hid                    22244   0  (unused)
input                   5792   0  [mousedev keybdev hid]
usb-uhci               26380   0  (unused)
usbcore                77504   1  [hid usb-uhci]
ext3                   70368   3
jbd                    51796   3  [ext3]


Adam Southerland wrote:

> Good Day!
>
> I Installed the new Kernel 2.4.20 and now I can't get my Realtek 8139 
> PCMCIA Nic to work...
>
> The CardBus receives an IRQ of 0 and the NIC inherits this IRQ =(
>
> Anyone know how to make this work with Thinkpads?
>
> btw...
> I have an IBM Thinkpad 760XL
> current working kernel is 2.2.19 with the PCMCIA-cs-xxxxx and the 
> realtek_cb.o driver...
>
> I have seen information that I need to use the 8139too.o driver and 
> this would work except my IRQ is 0. I have worked on this for 3 
> days... Constant compiling and stuff (Pentium 166MMX takes a while to 
> compile =) hehe
>
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