I'm having a bad time trying to install a Realtek RTL8139C+ PCI ethernet card. The machine is a dual-boot (with Win) i686 running Redhat 8.0, 2.4.18-14 kernel. Wonder if anyone else has had this experience.
I've tried the manufacturer's driver (Makefile is for a lower kernel), the latest copy from the Realtek Website and an RPM from scyld.com. Only the RPM installs without error, but does nothing thereafter. Realtek's documentation says "you will see a lot of errors; ignore them". The Taiwanese have a strange sense of humour.
In all cases, the machine fails to detect the card on boot and reports 8139too.o, in /lib/modules/2.4.18-14/kernel/drivers/net as "not an ELF file". In hardware settings, the machine asks to manually enter mem, I/O and DMA values, which are usually read automatically from card ROM. Have no idea what these are. Finally, the card cannot be initialised, though it is running fine under Win.
If someone has solved this problem, please tell me how you did it.
Thanks
Pratik Delhi
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