You should be insmod'ing .o files, not .c files.
Check the EthernetHowto. It may help to find
out what chipset your card is based on, as many
cards not supported directly by the kernel are based
on chipsets which are supported. (But it sounds like you
already know that.)
Also, make sur that Linux sees yor card (cat /proc/pci).
Bryan Scaringe
> Hi all,
>
> I try to install an ethernetcard, as far as I could find out it's
>
> not directly supported by the kernel but there is a driver for
>
> linux (the rtl8139.o) witch I compiled in /usr/src/linux
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> to rtl8139.c .
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> The manual states that I have to insert the driver as a module
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> so: insmod rtl8139.c but I get an errormessage looking like:
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> get_kernel_sys failed: Cannot find kernel symbols!
>
> So guess what, I'm stuck. Could this be because I use a floppy to
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> boot Linux? And not LILO? What are these kernel symbols?
>
> Allso, does annyone have experiance with this ethernetcard:
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> Level-one FNC-0101 TX
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> PCI Bus 10/100Mbps
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> Fast ethernet adapter
>
> IEEE802.3 10BASE-T
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> IEEE802.3U 100BASE-TX
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> My system runs on Slackware 2.0.34
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> And there are no other modules that I use.
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> All help would be appreciated,
>
> Greets,
>
> Jeroen
>
> --
> ***WE WILL EITHER FIND A WAY, OR MAKE ONE***
> Hannibal
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