Aug 07 2007

Linux and Realtek RTL8139 Ethernet drivers

Published by Andrew at 4:42 PM under Linux, System Administration, geeking

Recently the network connection on my Ubuntu (7.04 “Feisty Fawn”) desktop failed. It had been working perfectly for weeks when suddenly it just couldn’t connect to my home network. Everything worked fine in Windows.
During boot, it would properly detect the device, load the driver, the networking init script would run without errors, and but for the fact that it couldn’t talk to the network, and thus couldn’t get a response from it’s DHCPDISCOVER probes, no errors.
A static IP configuration worked just fine, but still wouldn’t talk to the network.

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