Network card recognition

[phil1349]

I am trying to install kubuntu 8.04 beta on an older box, 1 gig Athlon with 256 meg memory & all is ok except that it will not talk to the network card which has a Realtek RTL8139 chipset. I know this is an old card but I thought that the 8139 was more or less a "standard".

Is this because 8.04 is a beta or is support for these older standards now dropped.

Anyone any ideas on how to get it working ?

Thanks

[rodh]

Re: Network card recognition

I am having simular problem, But I may have found the answer.. I just don't know how to Implement it yet. My LAN is onboard SIS chipset and SIS has a linix driver for it. which I down loaded and have on Thumb Drive but I don't know how to install it from the thumb drive. Its a .TAR file My motherboard is a ASUS K8S-MX

[phil1349]

Re: Network card recognition

It's a funny old world. My other computer also has an onboard SiS LAN chipset which works with all distros I have tried without a problem.

If you have a driver as a .tar file, try extracting it and there is probably a README file to tell you how to install it.