RTL8139 Card and forcedeth : Network Card all confused ..Help !

I posted the following message on ubuntu forums but got no response,
plz help ! :

Hi,

I am trying to connect to my BroadBand ADSL connection using my
Ethernet card ( Intex technologies RTL 8139 D ). I tried most of the
things that were mentioned in many threads that .I read in the
Forums :

* Configured Static IP Address, Gateway, Mask etc

* Tried Unloading forcedeth module ( using sudo modprobe -r forcedeth)
and then loading the drivers 8139cp.o and 8139too.o ( using sudo
modprobe 8139cp and sudo modprobe 8139too)

* Tried the nvnet module too, but does not work

* Tried with Breezy, Dapper and Edgy still does not work

I suspect there is something is messed up with PCI bus, nVidia chipset
and Network Driver mismatch.

First of all, ifconfig shows TX and RX of eth0 to be 0 :

$ ifconfig

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:2F:35:0A7
inet addr:192.168.1.8 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::211:2fff:fe35:ad7/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:22

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:13143 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:13143 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1197852 (1.1 MiB) TX bytes:1197852 (1.1 MiB)


The output of lspci :

$ lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (different
version?) (rev a2)
0000:00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller
1 (rev a2)
0000:00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller
4 (rev a2)
0000:00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller
3 (rev a2)
0000:00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller
2 (rev a2)
0000:00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller
5 (rev a2)
0000:00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 ISA Bridge (rev
a4)
0000:00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce2 SMBus (MCP) (rev a2)
0000:00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller
(rev a4)
0000:00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller
(rev a4)
0000:00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller
(rev a4)
0000:00:04.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Ethernet
Controller (rev a1)
0000:00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2
AC97 Audio Controler (MCP) (rev a1)
0000:00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 External PCI
Bridge (rev a3)
0000:00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (rev a2)
0000:01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Unknown device 1904:2031 (rev 01)
0000:02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18
[GeForce4 MX - nForce GPU] (rev a3)

The output of dmesg ( cut out the irrelevant stuff ) :

[4295102.495000] forcedeth.c: Reverse Engineered nForce ethernet
driver. Version 0.41.
[4295102.497000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:04.0[A] -> Link [LKLN] ->
GSI 22 (level, high) -> IRQ 22
[4295102.497000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:04.0 to
64
[4295103.010000] eth0: forcedeth.c: subsystem: 01043:80a7 bound to
0000:00:04.0
[4295103.156000] eth0: no link during initialization.
[4295113.903000] eth0: no IPv6 routers present

This is when the system is first booted. After i unload forcedeth and
insert 8139too and 8139cp, dmesg shows :

[4297822.345000] ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:04.0 disabled
[4297831.077000] 8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.2 (Mar 22,
2004)
[4297832.941000] 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27

Last the output of lshw :

-----
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Ethernet controller
product: nForce2 Ethernet Controller
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 4
bus info: pci@00:04.0
version: a1
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: cap_list
resources: iomemory:fe800000-fe800fff ioport:eff0-eff7 irq:22

------
*-pci:0
description: PCI bridge
product: nForce2 External PCI Bridge
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 8
bus info: pci@00:08.0
version: a3
width: 32 bits
clock: 66MHz
capabilities: pci normal_decode bus_master
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Ethernet controller
physical id: 8
bus info: pci@01:08.0
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list
resources: iomemory:fbe00000-fbe000ff ioport:d800-d8ff irq:10

Still I am not able to ping my gateway 192.168.1.1. What could be
going wrong ?
I am at my wit's end having run out of ideas .
Any pointers would be of great help !

Thanks !

.

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