[Xen-devel] RTL8139 support

[Sean Atkinson <sean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'm having problems using my RTL8139 network card with Xen.  Output from
lspci reports "Realtek Semiconducter Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8319C/8139C+
(rev 10)".

Although /xeno-1.2/xen/drivers/net/SUPPORTED_CARDS lists rtl8139 as
ported, I can't find any reference in the source files.  Unsurprisingly
both the demo CD and locally built versions for the stable release don't
appear to support my network card.

The bit keeper binary appears to just hang when I try and clone the
unstable source, so I've unpacked the nightly tarball instead.  The
ChangeLog states that 8139too.c was added at 2004-03-02 11:33:20, and
this appears to be built.  Booting the unstable version, I noticed Xen
reports support for RTL-8139 as eth0, and even the partner ability which
I guess indicates it's a real physical device?  I only saw this output
before Xen stalled when I used the xenolinuz.gz from 1.2 with "noreboot"
- I don't know how else to capture such logs.  However using the correct
xenolinux.gz to boot properly I still get the same problems as ever. 
Trying "ifname=eth0" didn't help either.

In all cases dhclient only broadcasts DISCOVER requests and gets no
responses.  The output from "ifconfig eth0" lists a MAC of all zeroes
and TX data only, with zero RX counters.

What's the status of the 8139 driver?  Should this be working, or am I
missing something?

Thanks,

Sean.

-- 
Sean Atkinson <sean@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Netproject



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