Network & USB on CTPCI is near :-)

[paul92706]

I'm back home, but off to bed now. Just so much, I've got the network card working with the beta TOS from May 6th, 2012 and the latest ABE and SDR. Driver versions have been posted earlier in this thread. The card goes by the name RTK0.

Welcome back Ektus it is so nice so see you back buddy!! great i will research this info you give us. much appreciated!

[Ektus]

I've been around all the time, just not on the forum. PM me if it's urgent, say, needs to be answered within less than a year or two

Just to clarify: RTK0 is just the interface name for ifconfig, as opposed to EN0 or NE0 for the NETUSBEE and other devices. The network card must be PCI, 3,3V (has two notches in the connector) and have the right chip. Those are generic, there are only a couple vendors for the chip, but hundreds of producers for the cards.

The name of the chip is rtl8139 as is the name of the driver.

A search for "rtl8139" on ebay.com yields lots of results, many for less than $10. I don't know off hand if both the "C" and "D" variants work, should be noted in the driver readme or some forum entry. I can check later which kind of chip it is on my card.

Regards
Ektus.

[Ektus]

I've got a picture of the working card in my CTPCI:

RTL8139D_CTPCI_Ektus.jpg

It's a Longshine brand card with RTL8139D chip

Card designation: LCS-8038TXR7

Regards
Ektus.

[Ektus]

Hi Beetle,

I've got to add some info:

Ektus showed his Falcon 060 here at Fujiama Party, with USB card mouse working, and Network (Realtek PCI) working under MiNT.
It had a download speed of around 400kByte, pretty impressive.

The download was done using netsurf, downloading a newer version thereof. It was limited by the speed of the internet connection, as I just performed a small benchmark in the LAN.

Source: Raspberry Pi 2 running nginx, wget on my Notebook was able to get a 29MB video file with a speed of 9.5MB/s. So no limitation there for the following test:

Fetching that same file with wget on the Falcon: 1,05MB/s
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Repeating that test with destination /ram instead of hard drive resulted in a transfer rate of 1.25MB/s
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Regards
Ektus.

[paul92706]

Hi ektus, i finally got the driver working with the PCI network card. Now problem i am having, i am using DHCP with Mint 1-19, and it seem's that the Realtek is not leasing an IP address from my Host. Now when i call up the Bash program and execute IFCONFIG i do see "rtko" up and running, but with No ip address leased. Now should this network card be ok with DHCP? or would i have to manually setup a IP address to the PCI network card? thanks.

[Ektus]

Hi paul,

DHCP doesn't work for me either. Starting dhclient from the command line yields a couple DHCPDISCOVER lines followed by "No DHCPOFFERS received". But manually configuring the interface works for me.

from the command line, issue the following commands (insert your static ip for 192.168.0.10 and gateway):

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ifconfig rtk0 down
ifconfig rtk0 addr 192.168.0.10 up
ifconfig rtk0 netmask 255.255.255.0
route add default rtk0 gw 192.168.0.1

To make it start up at boot, edit /etc/resolv.conf, /etc/sysconfig/config.if and /etc/sysconfig/defaultroute and enter your static data there.

I don't know if the card will be working with 1.19, I've had it working successfully only with 1.17 yet.

Regards
Ektus.

[paul92706]

Ok, i figured there would be a problem with DHCP. Anyhow i am having problems getting Mint 1-17 working. Seems like theres a problem with Xaaes and the *.KM files, i need to find this problem so i can try this setup with Mint 1-17.

[umberto1st]

cool

[wongck]

So my card is a RTL8139D network card, but it detected as RTL8139CP... ip address etc are all assigned but it just don't ping any host.
Below interface startup seems OK (well i don't really know).

IMG_20160912_090313.jpg

[paul92706]

So my card is a RTL8139D network card, but it detected as RTL8139CP... ip address etc are all assigned but it just don't ping any host.
Below interface startup seems OK (well i don't really know).
IMG_20160912_090313.jpg

This is the same issue i had!, i teued 3 different Network cards with different RTL8139x extensions, i tried i believe the D,C,P and all the same i can not ping any host, but they are detected with the driver!