<quote who="Dave Scott"> > I just installed debian potato with kernel 2.2.18pre21 > > I'm trying to get a pair of SMC 1244TX (rtl8139) Ethernet adapters > working, but not having much luck. > > I ran insmod rtl8139 which installed but says (unused), so I > figured I need to set parameters for the cards.
i'm not sure if i can help ..but is your card PCI or ISA ? I have used several(5-6) different RT8139 based cards in linux 2.2 and all have worked perfectly by just 'modprobe rt8139' (or compile the module directly into kernel). I have never had to specify I/O address or IRQ for any PCI devices. I have also not heard of any ISA-based RT8139 cards.. course that doesn't mean they don't exist. i do remember a long time ago, SMC had a RT8139-based PCI card which required an updated driver, but this was a LONG time ago (at least 2 and a half years) so i believe the driver is already integrated into the recent kernels. just incase though, if your sure thats a RT8139 card you may want to try to grab the updated RT8139 driver from www.scyld.com http://www.scyld.com/network/rtl8139.html I had that particular SMC RT8139 card and with the updated driver(at the time) worked fine. since it was 2 and a half years ago i don't remember what model it was. so m
