Realtek RTL 8139 A/B/C Interface problem ....

[cnraju]

Hi,

I have have four systems at home, out of which Solaris 8 On Intel platform(With Realtek 8139 PCI Fast ethernet card) and one Pentium(windows 98 operating System, 192.168.0.3, Ip address assigned by router) connected through hub to Netgear router RP114 and other 2 machines with windows 2000 professional are directly connected to Router. Motorola cable modem is connected to Netgear router, three windows machines, whose dhcp enabled ip addresses are provided by the Netgear, could able to ping each other and could able to access the internet connection.

I have configured dhcp client on solaris 8 (intel machine) as below:

RTL 8139 A NIC card( rtls0)
Note: The RTL 8139 card driver supplied by Vendor for solaris 8, specifies that we can't force Speed/Duplex operations on the card.

- touch /etc/dhcp.rtls0
- cp /dev/null /etc/hostname.rtls0
- /etc/inet/hosts --> containing only 127.0.0.0 local host entry
- touch /etc/notrouter
- cp /dev/null /etc/default router
- cp /dev/null /etc/resolv.conf
- edited /etc/nsswitch.conf
hosts:files dns

rebooted the system and ran the following command
# ifconfig rtls0 dhcp start

getting a message:
ifconfig: rtls0: wait timed out, operation still pending ...

and never come up.

--> for # ipconfig -a , there is no inet address assigned against "rtls0" nic card.

---> for # netstat -rn, the output doesnt have any destination, gateway entry other than 127.0.0.1

2) I thought there may be a problem with DHCP configuration, then as an alternative, I have assigned a static IP address 192.168.0.5 to this card, the RTL 8139 card could able to plumb, and got recognised, i have checked with "ipconfig -a", it displayed the IP address 192.168.05, subnet mask:255.255.255.0. The network card recognised by Operating system. I said earlier, that this driver will not support force Speed/Duplex operations. But i could not able to ping to any system on the network. which are connected through hub, remaining systems on the network, they could able to ping to each other successfully.

what & where is the problem?

Please, can you help in solving this problem.

 

[kkl]

Hi cnraju,

Your other machines could ping each other, but not the Solaris. Have you checked the RealTek on Solaris is *really* working properly?

I got Solaris 8 (Feb/2002 release) installed on my pc which was then connected to a Win98 box. When I pinged Win98 from Solaris, I could see Win98(using netstat) was receving and sending bytes, but I could only see (using snoop) Solaris sending bytes, *NOT* receiving any bytes! I've tried the following network cards and the results were the same.

>realtek 8139
>3com ethernet III pci (3c590c)
>intel etherExpress pro/10+

When I changed Solaris back to win2K, the 2 machines could talk to each other.

cheers!