On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Jerry Human wrote:
> Jeff Lane wrote:
>
> > what kind of NIC? what is the make and model?
>
> It is an Ark Realtek RTL8139 nic.
>
> > can you do an lspci -vb and get the info???
>
> I didn't, the above name is off the disk label
>
> > whats the name of hte .c file?
>
> rtl8139.c
>
> > and that is a c source file... you have to compile the driver.
>
> That is what I thought but I haven't had to do anything like that yet so
> I don't know how. Since the driver has to be compiled and I have several
> nic's, do I have to compile the driver for each computer or for each OS?
>
> I thought I read a "how to compile drivers" HOWTO but I can't seem to
> find it anywhere. I've checked several sites and books and CD's but no
> joy:-( Can someone tell me where it's at or how to compile this
> thing so I can get my network running?
>
> Thank you.
>
>
You should be able to use the rtl8139.o driver that is part of the
kernel RPM. As root, try doing "modprobe rtl8139" on the machine with
the Realtek RTL8139 NIC installed in it.
If it does not work, then the best way to install it is to download the
kernel source RPM, and replace drivers/net/rtl8139.c with the one from
the floppy, and compile the kernel. Compiling a new kernel is covered
by the HOWTO's so I will not try and explaine how to do it here.
Just to make sure things are clear, you only need the driver on the
machine(s) that have that NIC installed. The rtl8139.c driver only
works with Linux, and the one on the floppy probably only works with the
2.2.x kernels. Other OSs take a different format driver - you will
probably find pre-compiled drivers for the other most of the other OSs.
Mikkel
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for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
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