https://ebasso.net/wiki/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=Installing_RTL8139D_NIC_on_Linux Installing RTL8139D NIC on Linux - Revision history 2026-06-02T11:17:21Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.40.0 https://ebasso.net/wiki/index.php?title=Installing_RTL8139D_NIC_on_Linux&diff=706&oldid=prev Ebasso: New page: Despite signs with Realtek chipset RTL8139D have support in the kernel, other manufacturers make false copies of these nics. If modules with '''8139too''' or '''8139cp''' didn´t work fo... 2009-02-18T00:50:38Z <p>New page: Despite signs with Realtek chipset RTL8139D have support in the kernel, other manufacturers make false copies of these nics. If modules with &#039;&#039;&#039;8139too&#039;&#039;&#039; or &#039;&#039;&#039;8139cp&#039;&#039;&#039; didn´t work fo...</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>Despite signs with Realtek chipset RTL8139D have support in the kernel, other manufacturers make false copies of these nics. <br /> <br /> If modules with &#039;&#039;&#039;8139too&#039;&#039;&#039; or &#039;&#039;&#039;8139cp&#039;&#039;&#039; didn´t work for you, then the procedure below can help you. <br /> <br /> This procedure worked for the following type of card: <br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Hangzhou Silan Microelectronics Co., Ltd. RTL8139D [Realtek] PCI 10/100BaseTX ethernet adapter (rev 01)&#039;&#039;&#039; <br /> <br /> Thanks to [http://linux-fedora.org/portal/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=112&amp;forum=8&amp;post_id=454 LonelySpooky] <br /> <br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Note 1:&#039;&#039;&#039; You must have the kernel-headers or linux-headers and kernel-devel installed <br /> <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;Note 2:&#039;&#039;&#039; You need to install the driver in Windows XP <br /> <br /> <br /> == Checking the model of your NIC == <br /> <br /> 1. Initially we will examine your NIC model <br /> <br /> # &#039;&#039;&#039;lspci -v&#039;&#039;&#039; <br /> <br /> 00:08.0 Ethernet controller: Hangzhou Silan Microelectronics Co., Ltd. RTL8139D [Realtek] PCI 10/100BaseTX ethernet adapter (rev 01) <br /> Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 193 <br /> Memory at df000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size = 256] <br /> I / O ports at 9000 [size = 256] <br /> [virtual] Expansion ROM at 10000000 [disabled] [size = 128K] <br /> Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 <br /> Capabilities: [60] Vital Product Data <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> == Installing Ndiswrapper ==<br /> <br /> Here we use the [http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ Ndiswrapper], which is a project that implements the NDIS API on linux. <br /> <br /> <br /> 2. Download Ndiswrapper: <br /> <br /> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=93482 <br /> or <br /> &#039;&#039;&#039;wget http://ufpr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper-1.53.tar.gz&#039;&#039;&#039; <br /> <br /> <br /> 3. Unpack the file: <br /> <br /> # &#039;&#039;&#039;tar -xzvf ndiswrapper-1.53.tar.gz&#039;&#039;&#039; <br /> <br /> <br /> 4. Enter the directory: <br /> <br /> # &#039;&#039;&#039;cd ndiswrapper-1.53&#039;&#039;&#039; <br /> <br /> <br /> 5. Compiling <br /> <br /> # &#039;&#039;&#039;make&#039;&#039;&#039; <br /> <br /> 6. Installing Ndiswrapper <br /> <br /> # &#039;&#039;&#039;make install&#039;&#039;&#039; <br /> <br /> <br /> == Installing the NDIS Driver == <br /> <br /> <br /> 7. Create the directory <br /> <br /> # &#039;&#039;&#039;mkdir -p /usr/local/sbin/driversxp/&#039;&#039;&#039; <br /> <br /> and copy the Windows XP drivers for it. Files &#039;&#039;&#039;netslnt.inf&#039;&#039;&#039;,&#039;&#039;&#039;readme.txt&#039;&#039;&#039;,&#039;&#039;&#039;slnt.sys&#039;&#039;&#039; <br /> <br /> <br /> 8. Install the Windows XP driver with the command <br /> <br /> # &#039;&#039;&#039;ndiswrapper -i /usr/local/sbin/driverxp/netslnt.inf&#039;&#039;&#039; <br /> <br /> 9. Run depmod <br /> <br /> # &#039;&#039;&#039;depmod -a&#039;&#039;&#039; <br /> <br /> <br /> 10. Loading the module Ndiswrapper <br /> <br /> # &#039;&#039;&#039;modprobe ndiswrapper&#039;&#039;&#039; <br /> <br /> <br /> == Setting up the card == <br /> <br /> <br /> 11. Configure the interface: <br /> <br /> # &#039;&#039;&#039;ifconfig wlan0 &lt;ipaddress&gt;&#039;&#039;&#039; <br /> <br /> ex.: &#039;&#039;&#039;ifconfig wlan0 192.168.1.10&#039;&#039;&#039; <br /> <br /> <br /> 12. Run ndiswrapper -m <br /> <br /> # &#039;&#039;&#039;ndiswrapper -m&#039;&#039;&#039; <br /> <br /> 13. Checking <br /> <br /> # &#039;&#039;&#039;ifconfig wlan0&#039;&#039;&#039; <br /> <br /> wlan0 Link encap: Ethernet HWaddr 00: E0: 4E: 21: F8: 29 <br /> inet addr: 192.168.1.10 Bcast: 192.168.1.255 Mask: 255.255.255.0 <br /> inet6 addr: fe80:: 2e0: 4eff: fe21: f829/64 Scope: Link <br /> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU: 1500 Metric: 1 <br /> RX packets: 118815 errors: 0 dropped: 0 overruns: 0 frame: 0 <br /> TX packets: 103442 errors: 0 dropped: 0 overruns: 0 carrier: 0 <br /> collisions: 0 txqueuelen: 1000 <br /> RX bytes: 85109884 (81.1 MiB) TX bytes: 17099046 (16.3 MiB) <br /> Interrupt: 193 Memory: df000000-df000100 <br /> <br /> <br /> 14. For the module to be loaded at startup, the file modprobe.conf add the line: <br /> <br /> alias wlan0 ndiswrapper <br /> <br /> <br /> == Example file / etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 == <br /> <br /> TYPE = Ethernet <br /> DEVICE = wlan0 <br /> BOOTPROTO = none <br /> Netmask = 255.255.255.0 <br /> Ipaddr = 192.168.1.10 <br /> GATEWAY = 192.168.1.254 <br /> ONBOOT = yes <br /> <br /> <br /> tags: rtl8139 linux driver rtl8139d</div> Ebasso