Need Help! Install Network card for Cable modem connection

[Carl Sappenfield]

I'm using a DEF-530TX+ on Slackware 8.0 with the 8139too driver RR.  It works, but the funny thing 
is, I have to run dhcpcd twice to make it work.  The first time, I can either wait for it to time 
out (failing to connect), or kill the process after a few seconds.  The second time I call dhcpcd, 
it grabs an address right away.  Can anyone tell me why?
Carl
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Huang, Yi 
To: 'kclug at kclug.org' 
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 12:00 PM
Subject: Need Help! Install Network card for Cable modem connection

I am using D-Link DFE-530TX+ network card. But I cannot connect to Internet. I use COMCAST cable as 
my ISP. 

I tried both RH7.2 and RH7.3. In RH7.3, it seems more promising. The Linux recognized the card 
automatically and add a line 

alias eth0 8139too 

to the /etc/modules.conf. I can see the 8139too module is loaded by "lsmod" command.

However, when the system start up or when I issue "/etc/rc.d/../network start" command, I got error 
when it tries to bring up eth0: 

Determining IP information... [fail]

If I issue "ifconfig eth0 up" I got error: 

SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resource busy. 

I can ping 127.0.0.1, but if I ping other IP, I got "network is unreachable" error.

In the /etc/sysconfig/network-script/ifcfg-eth0 file, I don't know if I have to specify 
DHCP_HOSTNAME. I called Comcast for the name, they said it is dynamic and they won't give out.

I also tried rtl8139.o driver.

Actually, the driver for linux in the installation floppy disk is rtl8139.c. But it seems for 
RH6.0. I cannot make it compiled. I got updated rtl8139.c from website and made it compiled. I can 
insmod pci-scan.o successfully. However, when I insmod rtl8139.o, I got error:

init_module: No such device.

Hint: insmod error canbe caused by incorrect module parameters, including  invalid IO or IRQ 
parameters. 

Can anyone give me help on this problem.

Thank you in advanced.