Re: [leaf-user] RealTek RTL8100 NIC Driver

[Brad K. <kl...@cl...>]

Your last statement is what I did. I started from scratch using only the
latest and greatest from the 3.1 release. I didn't use any old drivers (only
previous config files - which that release didn't have configdb or moddb
which made upgrading a royal pain). 

I only made the mistake initially of not copying the linux file over from
one of the pre-packaged images. Everything was from the same release. So the
driver from that release didn't work (which seems odd to me because I would
think the driver would support older version of the card, within a
reasonable time period of course). So since that was the only thing that
didn't work, I tried to find what would fix it - a pragmatic approach to fix
a problem.

Now that I know an old driver solves the problem, I can go back and load
everything that is of that same release (as long as it has the needed
functionality).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erich Titl [mailto:eri...@th...]
> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 2:25 AM
> To: Brad Klinghagen
> Cc: lea...@li...
> Subject: Re: [leaf-user] RealTek RTL8100 NIC Driver
> 
> Brad
> 
> Brad Klinghagen wrote:
> > I think I may have found how to make it work. I tried a couple older
> drivers
> > for 8139too.o. I tried the module from the 2.4.26 modules and 2.4.32
> > modules. The xx.26 version failed completely, but the 2.4.32 worked. I
> now
> > have connection through my NEW system. The file sizes for the 2.4.32 and
> the
> > 2.4.34 versions are the same, so I thought there wouldn't be a
> difference,
> 
> How can you be sure? Of course they may differ in just subtle ways.
> 
> > but being desperate, I tried it anyway, and it loaded good, and I was
> able
> > to get IP connectivity both ways through the router, and shorewall was
> able
> > to start up.
> 
> Don't do that, never, never ever mix kernel and module versions. The
> reason for your problem was probably such a mix up.
> 
> check your kernel version with uname -a
> get the correct module tarball from the download site and use those
> modules.
> best, get the latest and greatest stable kernel and modules and start
> from scratch.
> 
> Erich
>