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[Philippe Houdoin <philippe.houdoin@xxxxxxx>]

Philip Harrison asked:

> The past couple of days I've been trying to get the network to work
> under Haiku. I have been able to assign the loop0 to 127.0.0.1 and
> receive a ping from that address.  I was wondering how do to load the
> rtl8139 driver.
>
> I've modified the /boot/beos/system/boot/Netscript to
>
> ls /dev/net
> ifconfig rtl8139 192.168.0.10 up netmask 255.255.255.0
> route add default 192.168.0.1

Which looks fine.

> when I do an ls /dev/net all I get is
> stack

This don't ;-)

> Any ideas suggestions would be appreciated.

Seems that the rtl8139 driver is not loaded or can't find/support your net
adapter.

First, check that you have "rtl8139" entries in your Haiku's volume in
/your_haiku_volume/beos/system/add-ons/kernel/drivers/bin/rtl8139
/your_haiku_volume/beos/system/add-ons/kernel/drivers/dev/net/rtl8139

Next, check your net adapter PCI IDs are 0x10ec / 0x8139 (using Devices preflet
under BeOS/Zeta).

Unfortunatly, the current rtl8139 driver code don't throw any debug traces, so
you can't find why it doesn't detect/support your card for the moment.

Another possible solution is to copy your BeOS's rtl8139 (the one from Be Inc.)
in place of Haiku's open source rtl8139 driver:

$ cp /boot/beos/system/add-ons/kernel/drivers/bin/rtl8139
     /your_haiku_volume/beos/system/add-ons/kernel/drivers/bin/.

Tell us how it worked (or not).

- Philippe Houdoin