On Thursday 28 September 2006 23:37, fredex wrote: > All I know is that I've never had any trouble with Realtek chipset > NICs. But I must admit I've not used any of 'em with FC5, either. > > I'm currently running two of them in the old Smoothwall firewall box > (8139 cards) and it had no trouble at all. > > my desktop, which is running Centos 4.4 has a builtin 8169 (not a separate > card) and it also works perfectly. > > So, either FC5 has some oddity in how it recognizes/enables realtek > chipsets, or the particular card you have has done something that > breaks the otherwise easy-to-use chipset. No clue what. Note that two other people have reported big problems with realtek 8139 cards and FC5 in the last week. Anne
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