On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, serkoon wrote:
> Hi Greg,
>
> >Set the card as an NE2000 compatible..... I have a realtek chip card, but
> >manufacturers would be different for the actual cards I guess........make
> >sure its not in pnp mode by setting it with the software to be on a known
> >IRQ
>
>
> I changed the card to NE2k-pci with linuxconf (can't set the card itself, if
> that's what you meant), and found out that my BIOS assigns irq 10 to the
> first PCI slot (my networkcard). So I filled in the Irq (opt) setting in
> linuxconf, but after rebooting I got:
>
> insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/net/ne2k-pci.o: invalid parameter irq
>
> What's wrong?
RealTek 8139 is NOT a ne2k-pci card. You should load the module rtl8139
rtl8139 is a 100 Mbit card, unlike any NE2000 clone, which is 10Mbit.
I don't remember if RedHat supplies this module in the kernel package, if
not you should compile it.
Cheers.
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