On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 10:49:12PM +1300, Patrick Dunford wrote:rtl8139.c:v1.07 5/6/99 Donald Becker http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/rtl8139.html
On the drivers disk that came with the card it told me to compile rtl8139.c , which produced rtl8139.o
Ah, yes. rtl8139 is the original version of 8139too written by Donald Becker. 8139too contains changes and fixes that Becker disagrees with. So, as it stands, there are at least three 8139 drivers floating around.
Apparently lsmod says rtl8139 is loaded already.
Confused? I am.
What does 'dmesg | grep 8139' return? It's possible that the particular RTL-8139 driver you're using does not support or recognise your NIC.
-mjg
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xfc00, IRQ 10, 00:05:1c:19:df:f4.
The version of rtl8139.c that I downloaded from his current web site is version 1.23a dated 8/24/2003
So maybe I should try the newer version that I have compiled. How do I configure Linux to load a different driver?
By the way, for the guy who talked about Edimax. These cards I knew were available, and I would have picked one, except that Dick Smith Electronics had their own branded one, which comes with a stack of drivers on a CD.
