May 22 2009
Problem with Realtek LAN Card and the Solution (Elastix/Atom)
I had the same problem with a ELX-3000. The appliance use a ATOM and a RealTek Lan IC.
I simply did what was posted another site…..
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Atom and r8101E driver
To get the Atom box to work this is what I did.
Grab a USB key drive.
Go into the BIOS and disable the card and reboot.
Once running download the driver from and copy to USB key drive.
downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.asp…ductID=2916&D…
Compile the driver by following the directions in the file downloaded.
Remove the r8169 driver completely, this is the reason that this and all other r8169 based systems will not boot the iso.
reboot into the bios and enable the card.
I pointed this issue out months ago to everyone when I still worked on this project. This is one of the main reasons that I would not update the kernel since this module was completely borken in a lot of distros. Here is a link from Intel that shows which distros have issues with this driver. Try booting a standard CentOS 5.2 disk on a r8169/r8101/etc.. based system and see what happens. It will kernel panic, just like the new 2.6.2 iso will.
http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/d945gclf/sb/CS-...
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It worked for me…I hope it does for you…
Guy
[Originally posted by Guy Beaupre of abaplab.com on April 24, 2009]