On Saturday 10 May 2003 1:07 am, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Friday 09 May 2003 09:33 am, jeremy wrote: > > I have an HP zt1130 laptop and I can not figure out what drivers to use > > to get the network card working. > > > > I am using the vanilla 2.4.20 kernel and have applied the ck6 meta patch > > > > http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/ > > > > I thought I had a realtek network card but the realtek driver available > > is not working. > > > > what do I need to make it work? > > > > thanks, > > > > Jeremy Petzold > > Jeremy, > > I found this link: > http://h20015.www2.hp.com/content/common/manuals/lpi05595/lpi05595.pdf;jses >sionid=4JPQUDKI3RA5DQEXGRMEOSQ that indicates that you basic unit has an > Realtek RTL8100L NIC. > > - From another link: > http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/428/2002/8/0/9377431/ This sounds like > you are running an older version of the 8139too > driver... grab the latest from http://sf.net/projects/gkernel/ or kernel > 2.4.20-pre1. > > Google rules :) > > good luck, wishing you well. >
but that cannot be becasue my current kernel is 2.4.18-bf and I have in the past set up 2.4.19 and this deals with 2.4.20. also, I can ping my loop back address. could it be anything else? thanks, Jeremy
