From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:00:36 AET-10EDT,10,1,0,7200,4,1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1805 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Thursday 09 April 2009 Number 1805 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Realtek NIC Driver : John Angelico" 2 Re: Realtek NIC Driver : Ed Durrant 3 Re: Realtek NIC Driver : Andrew MacIntyre **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:26:05 +1000 (AEST) From: "John Angelico" Subject: Realtek NIC Driver Hi all. In our humble little home business, we are installing a new mobo into a system which has died recently. The mobo is a G31M3 v2 with Intel chipsets and claims to have onboard NIC of Megabit RTL8101E. With a PCI sniffer we get manufacturer info of Realtek but "unknown device" model 8136 Rev 01. Our attempts so far have failed: 8139/8169 no go and we can't find 811x drivers We are temporarily working with a plug-in SIS 900 card running at 100Mbits but as this is a server machine, we would love to get the Gigabit card working if that is what's fitted. Can anyone help with drivers, please? TIA Best regards John Angelico OS/2 SIG os2 at melbpc dot org dot au or talldad at kepl dot com dot au ___________________ -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:52:42 +1000 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Re: Realtek NIC Driver John Angelico wrote: > Hi all. > > In our humble little home business, we are installing a new mobo into a > system which has died recently. > > The mobo is a G31M3 v2 with Intel chipsets and claims to have onboard NIC > of Megabit RTL8101E. > > With a PCI sniffer we get manufacturer info of Realtek but "unknown device" > model 8136 Rev 01. > > Our attempts so far have failed: > 8139/8169 no go > and > we can't find 811x drivers > > We are temporarily working with a plug-in SIS 900 card running at 100Mbits > but as this is a server machine, we would love to get the Gigabit card > working if that is what's fitted. > > Can anyone help with drivers, please? > > TIA > > > Best regards > John Angelico > OS/2 SIG > os2 at melbpc dot org dot au or > talldad at kepl dot com dot au > ___________________ > Hi John, As you will see on the direct e-mail from the attached graphic files, I am using an onboard realtek 81xx chipset here and I'm using the 8139 driver that comes with eCS. In any case I have attached "several" Realtek NIC drivers to the direct mail as well - hopefully one of these will work for you. Cheers/2 Ed. [attachments have been removed] -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG === **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:58:42 +1000 From: Andrew MacIntyre Subject: Re: Realtek NIC Driver John Angelico wrote: > Hi all. > > In our humble little home business, we are installing a new mobo into a > system which has died recently. > > The mobo is a G31M3 v2 with Intel chipsets and claims to have onboard NIC > of Megabit RTL8101E. > > With a PCI sniffer we get manufacturer info of Realtek but "unknown device" > model 8136 Rev 01. > > Our attempts so far have failed: > 8139/8169 no go > and > we can't find 811x drivers > > We are temporarily working with a plug-in SIS 900 card running at 100Mbits > but as this is a server machine, we would love to get the Gigabit card > working if that is what's fitted. > > Can anyone help with drivers, please? Sadly, the many and varied versions of recent Realtek chips cause driver writers loads of grief. You might get lucky with the driver at http://www.os2warp.be/index2.php?name=gigabitdrvs#4 As a server machine, in all seriousness I'd advise avoiding Realtek if there's any possibility of using something else. Second hand Intel cards are relatively inexpensive and have much better performance and drivers. I picked up a couple of NIB Intel Pro/1000 MT PCI adapters off ebay for about $40 each posted, which Intel still provides OS/2 drivers for. I also found a PCIe x1 Marvell based card on ebay supported by a driver from the above source, but haven't had the opportunity to test it yet... Likewise a VIA 6122 based card... Happy Easter, Andrew. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew I MacIntyre "These thoughts are mine alone..." E-mail: andymac at bullseye.apana dot org dot au (pref) | Snail: PO Box 370 andymac at pcug dot org dot au (alt) | Belconnen ACT 2616 Web: http://www.andymac dot org/ | Australia -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG ===