Shawn wrote:
> FC6
> asus p5b-vm motherboard
>
> the realtek nic doesn't want to work
> tried another card - which uses rtl 8139 drivers
>
> no luck getting either to send more than 1kb/sec
> can't ping
In my experience, the RTL 8139 driver is very stable and Just Works.
There are two things I would suggest:
* So you've had a card that appears not to work. You've swapped it out,
and that one doesn't want to work either. Might I suggest that it
might not be the card at fault, but the cable of the device to which
you're connecting it?
Are the 100 MBit/s lights on? Do you see the lights at either end of
the link flashing appropriately when you try pinging?
* The RTL 8139 is very very common, largely because it is very cheap.
It is also a 100 Mbit/s card -- these days the only reason for the
manufacturers the choose that rather than a gigbit card is to save a
few pennies.
So you can expect the manufacturer to have attempted to cut costs as
much as possible on this card -- are you sure it works properly?
Hope this helps,
James.
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