Genius GF100TXR II

Donald Becker becker@scyld.com
Fri Apr 28 03:56:58 2000


On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Mike Hodgkinson wrote:

> The Genius GF100TXR II is a 100Mbps network card that uses the realtek
> 8139b chipset.  I have been trying (unsuccessfully) to get this working
> with the current source and the source supplied with the card and the
> module supplied with the 2.1.14 kernel and had no luck.  When the module
> is installed the card seems not to be detected,

If the card isn't detected, you won't be able to see the interface when you
run 'ifconfig eth0'.

> can ping itself alright
> but cannot ping others too well. It loses the first 4 or so packets and
> then has ping times of 2000-6000ms and recieves duplicate packets.

What error message are you getting?

I'm guessing that you have an interrupt problem, or perhaps are not in a
working bus-master slot.
    http://www.scyld.com/expert/irq-conflict.html

Donald Becker				becker@scyld.com
Scyld Computing Corporation
410 Severn Ave. Suite 210
Annapolis MD 21403


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