I just bought a Hush PC with a Realtek RTL-8139 in it and put Fedora Core 2. The driver is 8139too and works out of the box but is very slow. It's inconsistent - some sites are faster than others, and DNS lookups seem slow. There are postings from people with the same symptoms here:
1. http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&postid=940951#...
and here:
2. http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2004/May/3109.html
1 Suggests this is power management-related, so I tried stopping the acpid daemon - no joy. 2 suggests that upgrading to kernel 2.6.6 might fix it, so I got that out of testing and upgraded, but still no joy.
Realtek's site has some drivers here:
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloads1-3.aspx?series=16&Software...)
but they look old, and none explicitly say they're for 2.6 kernels.
lspci shows:
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloads1-3.aspx?series=16&Software...)
/etc/modprobe.conf includes:
alias eth0 8139too
What to do?
Cheers,
Eliot Stock.
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