Realtek RTL8019 Driver for Linux?
Scott Dudley
It seems as though I've aquired a NIC card for which there's no Linux
driver... tell me it's not so! I have several machines with Realtek
RTL8019's running Red Hat 5.0 and need to get them going. If anyone
is aware of such a driver, please advise.
Many thanks.
R-2-RO
Scott Dudley wrote:
I use that same card on 3 RedHat 5.0 machines.. I run them as ne2000
cards with no problem.. I did however have a lil trouble at first
since the autoprobe would never detect them.. I had to boot using a
DOS disk, and then use the PNPDIAG.EXE util on the supplied disk. (you
have that right?) It will tell you what address and IRQ the nic is
using. Write 'em down.. Boot Linux.. and add the card.. simple..:) oh
yeah, you have to specify the address in Hex(?) .ex. if the base I/O
is 240h , you specify it as 0x240 in the setup...
I hope this helps.. If not, feel free to email me.
Goood Luck.
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Peter Lusmore
Scott Dudley wrote in message <3538dd6...@news.goodnet.com>...
>
>It seems as though I've aquired a NIC card for which there's no Linux
>driver... tell me it's not so! I have several machines with Realtek
>RTL8019's running Red Hat 5.0 and need to get them going. If anyone
>is aware of such a driver, please advise.
>
>Many thanks.
These are NE2000 clones I think, you should find them supported directly as
such by RH5.0 but make sure you get the latest 2.0.32 kernel to be sure.
Peter
Paul Russell
sco...@goodnet.com (Scott Dudley) writes:
> It seems as though I've aquired a NIC card for which there's no Linux
> driver... tell me it's not so! I have several machines with Realtek
> RTL8019's running Red Hat 5.0 and need to get them going. If anyone
> is aware of such a driver, please advise.
>
> Many thanks.
Take a look on the NIC itself, and look at the chips. Or, if it's a
PCI card, look in /proc/pci.
Or, you could do a web search (Altavista, "linux 8019 Realtek") and on
the second page get to http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/rtl8139.html,
which contains:
This driver is for the RealTek 8129 and 8139 chips only. The 8019 and
8029 chips are unrelated PCI NE2000 clones, and are supported by
updates to the NE2000 driver available from the Linux PCI NE2000
update page (remote link).
That link takes you to http://rsphy1.anu.edu.au/~gpg109/ne2000.html:
The current v2.0 and v2.1 kernel directly supports the following cards
without any additional patches or changes:
Cards with the RealTek 8029 chip.
Cards with the Winbond 89C940 chip.
The Compex RL2000 card.
The KTI/Katron ET32P2 card.
Voila. It's an ne2000.
Rusty.
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Brian Anderson
Scott Dudley wrote:
> It seems as though I've aquired a NIC card for which there's no Linux
> driver... tell me it's not so! I have several machines with Realtek
> RTL8019's running Red Hat 5.0 and need to get them going. If anyone
> is aware of such a driver, please advise.
>
> Many thanks.
i've got one of those in the machine i'm typing on now. autoprobe
didn't get it (since it's the second nic) but then all i had to do to
get it found was add the line:
alias eth1 ne
to conf.modules, and it got the remaining settings (irq, io etc... on
it's own. ) that was a pci card. don't know how isa will work.
brian
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Ing. Alwyn John van den Berg
You can also download the linux driver for the RTL8019 from the ftp-site
of Realtek: ftp.realtek.com.tw, you can find the sources at:
/pub/lan/driver/8019, one problem the source is for linux-1.2.13, and
I'm having trouble to make it work on linux-2.0.29 and higher, anyone
wants to jump into that???
Regards,
Alwyn
PS.: remove the *NO_SPAM* if you want to reply
to me and not to the newsgroup.
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Paul Russell wrote:
>
> Take a look on the NIC itself, and look at the chips. Or, if it's a
> PCI card, look in /proc/pci.
>
> Or, you could do a web search (Altavista, "linux 8019 Realtek") and on
> the second page get to http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/rtl8139.html,
> which contains:
>
[SNIP,SNIP]
Stephen K Rohrer
Scott Dudley wrote:
> It seems as though I've aquired a NIC card for which there's no Linux
> driver... tell me it's not so! I have several machines with Realtek
> RTL8019's running Red Hat 5.0 and need to get them going. If anyone
> is aware of such a driver, please advise.
>
> Many thanks.
I also had problems getting RH5.0 to use my Realtek PCI card (RTL8029 PNP
PCI card). Luckly I have a PNP aware BIOS which was able to see the
card, so I only had to configure the bios for NE2000 support plus the
following additional step. The NE2000 driver doesn't look for NE2000
clones in PCI slots. This is fixed by adding/editing the following line
in 'usr/src/linux/drivers/net/CONFIG' and rebuilding the kernel:
NE_OPTS = -DCONFIG_PCI
Don't know if this is documented anywhere. I found it by looking at the
code (ne.c) and seeing the conditional compilation statements.
Steve Rohrer
Ron Laudadio
Last time I saw, nobody had a driver to work with the ISA version of the
RealTek Ethernet card (i.e. 8019). The PCI version (8029) has a driver
for Linux but I couldn't get it to work and threw it over my shoulder
and picked up a D-Link (tulip).
Sorry for the bad news!
Keep looking though!
Ron Laudadio
Yale Communications
http://yale.ca