[realtek] insmod rtl8139 problem

[Donald Becker]

On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, rob.geelen wrote:

> thnx for your reply, I checked with lspci -v, and this shows me the following 
> entry for the device:

I need to confirm the numeric values -- use "-n" as well.

> 02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 
> 8131 (rev 10)

What label does the chip have?

This might be a new ID.  More likely it's just a corrupted EEPROM.

>  Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.: Unknown device 8131
>  Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
>  I/O ports at c000 [size=256]

This looks normal.

You can read the EEPROM with
   rtl8139-diag -p 0xc000

> I also checked my bios, and this was allready to have it (bios) set the 
> IO-ports and IRQ settings, so no PnP for OS setting there..

Unrelated -- the resouces have been assigned.

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