After installing Ubuntu (fiesty fawn), I learnt the hard truth that my LAN Card (supposedly a realtek 8139) is not compatible.
I tried doing $>lspci (which lists all PCI devices), I got this
01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Hangzhou Silan Microelectronics Co., Ltd. Unknown device 2031 (rev 01)
Shit! I was fooled into buying a fake of Realtek card. My LAN card came packed in a box with the name Zebronics technologies. On googling, I learnt that all Zebronics and Intex LAN cards are fakes using the cheap chinese products.
These cards work on Windows XP (after installing some drivers. It is not plug and play.) but not on Linux. , so all I can do now is buy a VIA Rhino or D-Link lan card which should just work with Ubuntu.
Future buyers, beware. I repeat, do not buy Zebronics and Intex lan cards just because they are cheap.
Here are other links from which I got to know about this
http://geektalkin.blogspot.com/2006/04/intex-zebronics-fake-rtc8139drtl8139d.html
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=563902
UPDATE : see this https://vishalmanohar.wordpress.com/2007/07/07/configuring-hangzhou-silan-on-ubuntu-linux/ on 2 ways to configure the Silan card on Ubuntu linux
Hello World 
August 5, 2007 at 1:55 pm |
One of my friend gave me this ‘Hangzhou Silan Microelectronics Co., Ltd. Unknown device 2031 ‘ LAN Card. Windows XP it doesn’t have the driver for this NIC . I have FC7 in that it was detected and I am able to browse.
thanks to your link I have downloaded the driver .I havnt checked it let me chk and reply ..
thanks
Pai
August 8, 2007 at 10:05 am |
I was also cheated in the same way. I bought a Quantum network card which was supposed to have realtek chip. It works fine under windows XP but when i installed Fedora 6 i wasn’t able to browse.. i tried installing it using some of the ways i got to know from web thinking this is a REALTEK 8139D chipset card.. but to no avail..
Finally i ran a command LSPCI on Fedora 6 which told me that it was a card mentioned above..
Ethernet controller: Hangzhou Silan Microelectronics Co., Ltd. Unknown device 2031
I can’t do anything right now.. but i can tell you guys to not buy any product other than the original-company made ones.
ANyway cheers..
Life is good (at least beautiful to the eyes)!
September 19, 2007 at 4:21 pm |
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October 7, 2007 at 10:43 am |
Hmmm, I just bought one today. Same problem. Very well, I shall return it and make a fuss.
January 26, 2008 at 11:09 am |
hi , yes i have intex lan card , i m using it on win xp , but this shit is not working , is just breaking( dropping ) connection with pc load , like when i run any small or big app this shit break connection
it make me pissed off 😦
February 1, 2008 at 8:27 am |
Silan thing is supported in latest Linux kernels.but u may need to re-compile to enable the modules to be built supporting ur card.
March 10, 2008 at 10:46 am |
so sucking card,ubuntu fawn hangs when configuring,
i use cyberroam dont know how to configure,please reply if
you can help me with installing cyberroam inside linux.i dont have clue.although atlast i installed the module into kernel
but internet doesnt work
April 3, 2009 at 12:52 pm |
Intex LAN Cards are good for nothing. Don’t waste time installing or trying to make that to work. We all know that it won’t work. I am sure their others products will also behave the same way.