"Eaon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Second try - sent this last week and it never went through - was something
> broken perhaps? Or I got censored for being an idiot, who knows. ;-)
>
>
> Ok, go easy on me. I've just recently put on the chef's hat and entered the
> kitchen. But alas, I'm stuck at the door.
>
> I've mirrored cooker to a working machine running 7.2. I want to set up
> over the network (NFS) to another machine, so I created the network boot
> disk. But the system I'm going to install on has a DLink DFE-538TX card,
> which uses rtl8139.o. It's not in the list of available modules (though
> it's a decent card for the price, working for me on other machines - it
> should work). How do I a) add it to the list or b) get some nice person to
> see to it that the driver is on the next version of that disk?
Yes it seems that rtl8139.o no more exists. Investigating with the kernel
people.
> Or, inspiration strikes, could I ALT-F? to somewhere and insmod it manually?
> ATL-F3 and ALT-F4 have no prompt at which to type, so I'm not seeing this as
> a possibility, but perhaps...
No, in stage1 you don't yet have a shell. Not enough disk space :-).
Can you tell me the pci entry number of your network card? Use the
"lspci*" suite to discover it. My best guess would be "10ec8129", is that
right?
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Guillaume Cottenceau - http://us.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/
