[SATLUG] New install Ubuntu 7.04 NIC Realtec 8139 fail

[Henry Pugsley]

The VIA chipset is an onboard NIC that just doesn't have an actual
physical interface.  Some of the mobos we used at SB had this .. bit
of a pain.  It is probably cheaper to manufacture all the boards with
the NIC chipset and only put the RJ-45 on the boards they charge extra
for having an onboard NIC.  The only problem it causes is if the
via-rhine module is loaded first, the onboard NIC becomes eth0 and
your PCI NIC becomes eth1.

Judging by some of the errors you are getting, it looks like you are
not running some of the commands as root.  That would explain the
errors on ifup/ifdown and the <access denied> in lspci.  You need to
make sure you run all those commands as root or you will get
inconsistent results ("sudo su - " if you have to).

If passing the media=0x01 option works for you, then you can add that
to the /etc/modprobe.d/aliases file:

options 8139too media=0x01

and it will use that option every time the module is loaded.

-Henry

On Nov 25, 2007 6:54 PM, herb cee <hc at lookcee.com> wrote:
> InstallNotes
>
> Hi gals/guys, I am fighting install bug on Ubuntu and PCI Realtec NIC,
> uses rtl8139d chip.
> Install of 7.04 does not load either of 2 included kernal drivers
> 8139too or 8139cp
>
> (snip from lscpi -v)
> 00:07.0 Ethernet controller: Hangzhou Silan Microelectronics Co., Ltd.
> RTL8139D [Realtek] PCI 10/100BaseTX ethernet adaptor (rev 01)
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
>         Memory at dc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
>         I/O ports at a000 [size=256]
>         [virtual] Expansion ROM at 60100000 [disabled] [size=128K]
>         Capabilities: <access denied>
>
> 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II]
> (rev 70)
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
>         I/O ports at bc00 [size=256]
>         Memory at dc001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
>         Capabilities: <access denied>
>
> (I am puzzled by 00:12.0 since there is no RJ-45 on the mobo but dunno
> if this is part of the problem or not) I have been on this all weekend
> and bout all I did was get fuzzyheaded. There is no resolution for this
> bug and in the Googleing I saw where the bug is still present in ver 7.10.