Adding RTL8139 Into Gentoo With modeprobe

Written by Paul Ooi · in Systems

In Gentoo installation, if you are booting kernel with nodetect; then you are required to add Realtek 8139 module to enable the NIC working.

Well, if you run modprobe rtl8139, r8139 or realtek8319 won’t work. The correct modprobe is;
modeprobe 8139too

Paul Ooi · October 4, 2006 at 10:52:06 · →

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lotso · October 17, 2006 at 21:07:04 · →

Hmm.. how come you’re into Gentoo??
Paul Ooi · October 20, 2006 at 10:21:34 · →

Just for fun 😀
chfl4gs_ · December 6, 2006 at 12:41:54 · →

As far as I know, there are 8139too (new driver), rtl8139 (old driver) and 8139cp for RealTek 8139C+ in Linux kernel. Never heard of r8139 or realtek8319 though. Probably drivers from vendor? 😛