Realtech 8139 network cards

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Hi,

I have an old PC that im trying to set up for a VPN server with Jaunty server, It has an onboard Realtek "Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)" and i installed an extra network card with the same chipset... I've been trying to set up the second card with no luck..

I have tried this to see if it might be the driver

sudo modprobe 8139too

And tried adding pci=nopci as a booting option(not sure if this is right)


kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.28-11-server root=/dev/mapper/Pebkac-root ro quiet splash pci=noacpi

When i edit the network interfaces file and reload the network with

sudo /etc/init.d/networking force-reload

I get the following

bob@Pebkac:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/networking force-reload
* Reconfiguring network interfaces... Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.1
Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
eth1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
eth1: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
Bind socket to interface: No such device
Failed to bring up eth1.
* if-up.d/mountnfs[eth0]: waiting for interface eth1 before doing NFS mounts
[ OK ]

Thanks in advance

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I also tried te following

bob@Pebkac:~$ sudo lshw -c network
*-network:0
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: a
bus info: pci@0000:00:0a.0
logical name: eth0
version: 10
serial: 00:d0:c9:28:75:65
size: 100MB/s
capacity: 100MB/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=8139too driverversion=0.9.28 duplex=full ip=172.16.20.125 latency=32 link=yes maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 module=8139too multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s
*-network:1 UNCLAIMED
description: Ethernet controller
product: RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 14
bus info: pci@0000:00:14.0
version: 10
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm cap_list
configuration: latency=64 maxlatency=64 mingnt=32


I read on another forum that "network:1 UNCLAIMED" means that the driver isn't loading right... so i did


sudo rmmod 8139cp
sudo rmmod 8139too
sudo modprobe 8139too


But i get this error


WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/second-card, it will be ignored in the future release.
[26247.880173] 8139too 0000:00:14.0: region #0 not a PIO resource, aborting

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in dmesg i found this


[ 6.967671] 8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.3 (Mar 22, 2004)
[ 6.967808] 8139cp 0000:00:0a.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip, use 8139too
[ 6.967867] 8139cp 0000:00:14.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip, use 8139too
[ 7.009338] 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.28
[ 7.009531] 8139too 0000:00:0a.0: found PCI INT A -> IRQ 11
[ 7.009572] 8139too 0000:00:0a.0: sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:07.2
[ 7.009609] 8139too 0000:00:0a.0: sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:14.0
[ 7.013175] eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xd400, 00:d0:c9:28:75:65, IRQ 11
[ 7.013193] eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139B'
[ 7.013296] 8139too 0000:00:14.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[ 7.013321] 8139too 0000:00:14.0: found PCI INT A -> IRQ 11
[ 7.013360] 8139too 0000:00:14.0: sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:07.2
[ 7.013379] 8139too 0000:00:14.0: sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:0a.0
[ 7.013416] 8139too 0000:00:14.0: region #0 not a PIO resource, aborting


Looks like an IRQ issue? or am i wrong?

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I tried adding this to "/boot/grub/menu.lst" with no luck


noapic nolapic acpi=off pci=noacpi

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Hi, I found an option in the BIOS that said something about "PNP os" and i set it to yes, now i have a new error in dmesg


[ 7.018728] 8139too 0000:00:14.0: Chip not responding, ignoring board
[ 7.018831] 8139too: probe of 0000:00:14.0 failed with error -5