Problems connecting with Realtek RTL8139D

[andy_blah]

I've had this problem ever since I've installed this ethernet card in the PC (after the 'effin integrated one blew off for some reason), I wasn't ever able to make the networking work again. Every time I try to trigger the PPPoE connection (DSL), the PPP configurator keeps on looking for the concentrator, reaches over 100% and stayed like that for 1 hour.

Here's the terminal log of everything that I've tried:

~$ sudo lshw -C network
  *-network               
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL8139D [Realtek] PCI 10/100BaseTX ethernet adaptor
       vendor: Hangzhou Silan Microelectronics Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 5
       bus info: pci@0000:00:05.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 01
       serial: 00:e0:a0:00:c0:6d
       size: 100MB/s
       capacity: 100MB/s
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm vpd bus_master cap_list rom ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=sc92031 duplex=full latency=32 link=yes maxlatency=40 mingnt=20 multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s
       resources: irq:16 memory:e8521000-e85210ff ioport:e000(size=256) memory:18000000-1801ffff(prefetchable)

	   
~$ lsmod | grep 8139
8139too                18545  0 
mii                     4381  1 8139too

~$ lspci | grep Ethernet
00:05.0 Ethernet controller: Hangzhou Silan Microelectronics Co., Ltd. RTL8139D [Realtek] PCI 10/100BaseTX ethernet adaptor (rev 01)

Any solutions to this problem?

[andy_blah]

Nevermind the above post, managed to fix the problem after some more configuring, the new Network Manager gets more and more bizarre.

Now my problem is that every time I want to connect, I have to start the DSL connection from NM's menu and after that to type in the ”default” password. That's not a problem for me, only that I won't be using this machine much, instead my dad will and he's a real computer sawy problem, plus that he's quite hostile about doing 100 things before accomplishing one task. So, my question is, are there any ways of making the PPPoE connection start automatically when the OS boots?
I've tried to set the connection through terminal (pppoeconf) since this is the only way of making it connect automatically I knwo, but it cannot find the access concentrator.

[andy_blah]

Anyone... ?

[dineshs]

While configuring DSL via Network manager there is an option `connect automatically'.Did you try ticking that?

[andy_blah]

Unfortunately, no, I did tick the box and it still asks me for the password and I have to manually connect every time.
More importantly I would want the terminal method to work, since I know that would surely connect every time I boot into Ubuntu.

[andy_blah]

*bump* Nobody knows?

[dineshs]

If network manager is running you will not be able to setup the connection using pppoeconf.So I think you may try removing NM,restart the machine and proceed with pppoeconf .The first part of the following link explains how to remove NM (I havent tried this )
http://www.uluga.ubuntuforums.org/sh...01&postcount=2

[andy_blah]

Thank you very much for that resource, but unfortunately that doesn't seem to work as after configuring, pppoeconf still doesn't find anything. I've issued the second last command on the page you suggested after finishing with the removal of NetworkManager and it printed this:

~$ ifconfig
eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0c:76:ae:9a:82  
          inet addr:192.168.1.112  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: 2002:5922:5efa:4:20c:76ff:feae:9a82/64 Scope:Global
          inet6 addr: fec0::4:20c:76ff:feae:9a82/64 Scope:Site
          inet6 addr: fe80::20c:76ff:feae:9a82/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:15692 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:107 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:1172099 (1.1 MB)  TX bytes:11232 (11.2 KB)
          Interrupt:23 Base address:0x4000 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:240 (240.0 B)  TX bytes:240 (240.0 B)

[dineshs]

To what device your ethernet cable is connected to?If it is a router/modem why dont you try to configure it in PPPoE mode ?

[andy_blah]

No router, no modem. I'm directly connected to my ISP (don't ask... it's their strange way of doing things XD)