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Originally posted by sims
I'm sorry, but I was out of ideas...

Are you _sure_ the module is rtl8139?
Which kernel version are you running?
Try doing a: "modprobe 8139too"

No need to be sorry. I'm certainly not offended by any suggestions you give. This place seems pretty friendly.

Anyway, I am sure my ethernet card uses the rtl8139 chipset, and guess what? The 8139too driver worked! This is what I did to restart networking:

Code:

$ modprobe 8139too

(Bunch of output, contacting dhcp server blahblahblah)

$ /etc/init.d/networking restart

$ ping google.ca (to test)

(output on the results from pinging google)

So it seems it worked! Thanks a lot sims! I only wonder now how to get this module loaded at startup, instead of whatever it's searching for now on boot. Do you know how to do this?

Bookspoppa: My (rather uninformed) suggestion to you is to try to re-load the module for your NIC as I did above. I don't have the slightest clue what the module is called. Maybe try $ modprobe *82562EZ* unless someone actually knows the name of the driver.

Thanks again for your help sims, and Bookspoppa -- courage!

EDIT: Actually I think I just figured it out from this thread. Just add the module to /etc/modules (I'm not actually sure whether this is a directory or a file. Either way it should be straightforward.) and then type update-modules

I still think this is a problem with Deb's current unstable packages (or sid, to be honest I'm not sure what I'm running.)