Ethernet not working in sarge. Have I done enough?

From: Hendrik Boom (hendrik_at_pooq.com)
Date: 07/30/04

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    I've been trying to net-install sarge using the new installer.
    The install worked, in the sense that I now have useless but otherwise
    working sarge system.

    The trouble is that is seems to be unable to communicate with my ethernet
    card, a Realtek RTL-8139, for which it has installed the 8139too
    module. I get the messages, repeated many many times:

    NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
    eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1

    ifconfig, route, etc., all tell me things are just fine, just like
    on the working woody system. I used diff on their outputs to confirm
    that they really don't have significant differences.
    The interrupt address of the realtek card differed, but isn't that
    allocated dynamically by plug&play anyway?

    It shouldn't be a hardware problem, because everything still
    works under the woody system I still have in another partition
    on the same machine.

    (a) Does anyone have an idea know what else needs to be done
    to get it to work?

    (b) I sent extensive installation reports about these failed
    installs -- bug#261745 for beta 4, and bug#262070 for daily
    build 20040727. Is that enough? Or are these just accumulated
    statistically and do I need to lodge some other kind of report
    somewhere? I do find it hard to imagine anyone reading all these
    installation reports and still having time to get any real
    debugging done!

    -- hendrik@pooq.com 

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