Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos> wrote:

/ Hi,

/>/ I have a compaq V2000 laptop. Specs for network say its a />/ realtek 8139/8139C+ NIC. / Is it really a RTL8139? Or it is possible that it's a RTL8100?

The reason I ask is because while the RTL8100 is supposed to be MAC compatible with the RTL8139, I'm finding this is not the case. E.g., https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=175971

/ Other distros (namely suse) said there was no problem with

/>/ this was detected and worked. />/ Mine does not work on either of the 2 V2000 laptops I have. />/ I tried manually loading the 8139cp module then restarting />/ the network and that did not do it. / Nope, the 8139cp didn't work at all. The 8139too driver loads, but doesn't communicate at all.

------------

Thanks Bryan,

I also tried going out to the realtek.com.tw web site. They only have linux drivers showing for kernel 2.4.X

Should I try that since my kernel is 2.6.X?

Jerry