OT: Realtek 8139 hangs after dhcp at startup
Bob Chiodini
chiodr at kscems.ksc.nasa.gov
Wed Jul 21 11:50:12 UTC 2004
On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 21:49, Ben Vitale wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> This problem seems unrelated to the Fedora OS itself.
>
> Upon startup, after the memory test, when my Realtek 8139 ethernet card
> initializes (?), I see the following:
>
> Realtek 8139A/B/C / RTL8130 PCI Fast Ethernet Controller v2.11 (001205)
> Client Mac Address: ...... GUID: .......
> Client IP: ...... Mask: ..... DHCP IP: .......
> Gateway IP: .....
>
> All the addresses/values that display are correct. But then it stops.
> And hangs (indefinitely, far as I can tell). If I start the machine
> with the ethernet cable unplugged, it bypasses this situation
> completely, after which I can plug in the ethernet cable and eth0 comes
> up with no issue in FC2.
>
> This problem only recently started occurring when I got Comcast for
> Internet. I had no such problems with my LAN at school. I couldn't
> find anything in the BIOS to somehow disable this media check upon startup.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
Ben,
This is a sort of me too reply.
I also have a 8139 card (dlink DFE-530+, I think). When connected to a
Linksys Router, sometimes the interface failed to start, but always
failed to stop at shutdown. A tulip based card did not exhibit the any
problems.
With a dlink router the 8139 card always works. The tulip card worked
with either router.
Moral of the story: Go buy another (non 8139-based) NIC. The 8139
cards are slow and generally suck.
Bob...
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