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hex:
Hi, all...
Hopefully some one in here can help me get rid of M$ for good.
OK here is the problem....I recently bought a laptop, I am on a tight budget, so I could not be too picky.
I bought a Com-crap-Q Very-Sorry-E-O 700 (compaq presario 700). First thing I did after I got it home was, check out it everything worked under XP. The second thing I did was to install Red Hat 7.1 (On seperate partions). Everything went fine, until it went boot for the first time....OH NO!! I got half way thru the boot process and so far so good.....then it got to eth0 ....it just sits there. It does not time out, it just sits there.
The ethernet card is integrated (obviously) and uses RealTek RTL8139 drivers under Win XP. I found drivers to d/l. But how can I install them if I can not even get to a command line?
I guess after all this long winded explaniation, I am asking:
Does any one know of a distrubution of Linux that supports (naive support) the RealTec RTL8139 drivers??
I have searched and can only find people with the same problem, but no one with a solution. (Actually some one suggested to slip in source code and recompile....I dont know, or have the time right now to figure out how to do that.)
Any suggestions are welcome,
Thanks
hex
[ February 21, 2002: Message edited by: hex ]
[ February 21, 2002: Message edited by: hex ]
Centurian:
Hey,
Hmmm if your computer is not connected to a network it will take a long time when you boot for eth0 to clear. Basically it will check like a billion times for a network then will finally fail. I found that out the hard way.
I have realtek 8139 ethernet cards on my network and they work fine with both Redhat 7.2 and Mandrake 8.1. The drivers are included in both of OS's.
quote:Originally posted by hex:
I bought a Com-crap-Q Very-Sorry-E-O 700 (compaq presario 700). First thing I did after I got it home was, check out it everything worked under XP. The second thing I did was to install Red Hat 7.1 (On seperate partions). Everything went fine, until it went boot for the first time....OH NO!! I got half way thru the boot process and so far so good.....then it got to eth0 ....it just sits there. It does not time out, it just sits there.
The ethernet card is integrated (obviously) and uses RealTek RTL8139 drivers under Win XP. I found drivers to d/l. But how can I install them if I can not even get to a command line?
I guess after all this long winded explaniation, I am asking:
Does any one know of a distrubution of Linux that supports (naive support) the RealTec RTL8139 drivers??
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hex:
Hmm...
By long time, what do you mean??
I can not remember exactly how long I let it sit there, but I am sure that it was at least over 5 minutes. Surely it should not take over 5 minutes for the entire boot process. (Duron 900, 256 meg). Or could it take that long on the initial boot??
Thanks for your reply, maybe I will try RH 7.2.
hex
voidmain:
You don't have to wait for it to time out. You have a few other alternatives. For one you can boot in single user mode "linux single" at the LILO/GRUB prompt. Other option is to press "I" at the red RedHat 7.1 on bootup which will give you an "interactive" startup where you can say "no" to network.
hex:
Thanks Void Main();
I never heard of either of theese options, I guess that I am still a Linux newbie. Refresh my memory...to get to select from LILO you would press TAB before OS begins to load?? Then you would type "linux single" ?? What is linux single mode??
Thanks
hex
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