On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 22:49, Patrick Dunford wrote:
> Matthew Gregan wrote:
> >On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 07:10:36PM +1300, Steve Holdoway wrote:
> >>Something in the back of my mind tells me that there was ( when I was
> >>using 2.4.9 or so I think ), options for 2 different kinds of 8139
> >>chip. I don't know if anyone else can remember this???
> >
> >There are two drivers available: 8139too and 8139cp. The 8139cp driver
> >is designed to support RTL-8139C (note the 'C') chipsets and up only.
> >The 8139too driver supports older RTL-8139{,A,B) chipsets.
> >
> >If you're sure your NIC has an RTL-8139C chipset, use the 8139cp
> >driver--it is significantly better.
>
> On the drivers disk that came with the card it told me to compile
> rtl8139.c , which produced rtl8139.o
>
> Apparently lsmod says rtl8139 is loaded already.
>
> Confused? I am.
what does ifconfig say?
