hello there
as crunchbang now offers the option to install liquorix kernel, I installed the 2.6.36-2.dmz.5-liquorix-686,booted fine wireless working but wired not working, so I rebooted to the squeeze kernel (2.6.32-5-686), wireless and wired working very fine. does anyone had this problem.
reported this on the crunchbang forum( crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic/10824/wired-connection-not-working-with-liquorix-kernel/ )

xxx@MMMM:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 81)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250 [Mobility FireGL 9000] (rev 01)
02:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6306/7/8 [Fire II(M)] IEEE 1394 OHCI Controller (rev 80)
02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 20)
02:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter (rev 04)
02:04.0 CardBus bridge: ENE Technology Inc CB1410 Cardbus Controller
doran@crunchbang:~$ lspci | grep 8139
02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 20)
xxx@MMMM:~$ lsmod | grep 8139
8139too 18462 0
mii 4321 1 8139too
xxx@MMMM:~$ ifconfig -a
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:04:23:7f:4e:4d
inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::204:23ff:fe7f:4e4d/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3019 errors:2 dropped:2 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2770 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2326319 (2.2 MiB) TX bytes:471288 (460.2 KiB)
Interrupt:5 Memory:90000000-90000fff
irda0 Link encap:IrLAP HWaddr 00:00:00:00
NOARP MTU:2048 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:8
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:7 Base address:0x2f8
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1104 (1.0 KiB) TX bytes:1104 (1.0 KiB)
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The problem is solved. It should be 3 modules loaded, not two. one is missing ( the 8139cp module). Loading the third one solved the issue.
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even with last image ( 2.6.36-2.dmz.8) the right module are not loaded
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Can you try a stock or vanilla kernel of 2.6.36? I don't include any patches that can possibly break modules for that hardware.

EDIT: I would suggest adding the modules you really need into /etc/modules and blacklisting the modules you don't want.
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2.6.36-3.dmz.2 still don't load the right module(now I can't even load it manually)
Would you please tell me where to find stock 2.6.36 deb kernel in order to test it. in experimental there is only 2.6.37.
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You can add future to the liquorix deb source line. This will let you get updates for new kernels that are not feature complete to my standards. Right now, there's a 2.6.37 kernel available with all the features that probably matter to you.

Give that a shot and tell me what happens.
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First of all, alot of thanks to you and everyone working on this project (keep the good work man).
So let us sum it up:
my ethernet card ( 02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 20)), works very well with
-2.6.32-5-686(squeeze kernel)
-2.6.37-trunk-686(debian experimental repos)
-and i'm sure it was working with 2.6.35 liquorix kernels, all of them giving me this output:


my ethernet card does not work with:
-2.6.36-2.dmz.5-liquorix-686
-2.6.37-0.dmz.1-liquorix-686 and all the snapshots betwean them, giving me this output:


I didn't try any liquorix kernels between 2.6.35 and 2.6.36-2.dmz.5-liquorix-686, so I don't know at what kernel version this happened.
I hope my input will be very useful to you, as I'm not very knowledgeable with linux ( if you request more inputs, I'll be happy to provide).

take care and keep the good work
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Still my wired not loaded even with 2.6.38-2dmz.1. (wireless is fine)
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Testing the linux-image-3.2.0-12.dmz.1-liquorix-686 kernel and my wired connection still not working.
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Ok, I looked at the 32-bit config for liquorix, and the 8139CP module is simply disabled. I turned it back on and your ethernet chip should work in the next kernel package.
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