Sometime Yesterday Mr. Q u a s i asked about,<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> I went along and then there was this problem. His card is a Dlink
>dfe-538tx and there was no driver for it. (I have Debian 2.2 rel 2 >CD's). A quick search on the net told me that the chipset on that >card is >a rtl8139 one. I tried the install again and there was a driver for >this, >but it 'failed' to load. > Another quick search on the net told me that this is a problem with >the >driver which comes with the 2.2.18pre21 kernel. They gave a .c >driver file >and asked to compile and load it. But the compilation failed as it >said >that the file was written for gcc 2.7 while I had 2.95. > >Now I cannot update till I have access to the net. I will not have >access >till the network card works. What shall I do? Can anyone send me a >newer >version of the rtl8139 driver which I can load in the 'load extra >drivers >from floppy' phase? It should also work with my current kernel...[snip]
I have the drivers for DFE-38TX on floppy disk. You can get
the drivers form the driver folppy of your friend.
Well I'm here attaching a *readme* file from my disk
Just read that & tell me if it suits to your needs then I'll send it you
personally ( thus not occuping the BW of our list)
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P.S. I've never used these drivers as I use the card only with windows :(
If anybody else wants the same files then do contact me
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The procedure to activate DFE-538TX on Red Hat 6.X linux is as follows: step 1: copy the driver rtl8139.c from driver diskette to you linux.
step 2: compile:
The instruction for compiling the driver is include at the end of
the driver file. (run this instruction at /usr/src/linux)
Or you can use the Makefile included in the driver diskette \Linux.
step 3: insert the driver as module:
insmod rtl8139.o
(run 'lsmod' to see if the module is inserted)
step 4: bind your card to an IP address
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} broadcast ${BROADCAST}
netmask ${NETMASK}
(run 'netstat -i' to see if there is a interface 'eth0')
step 5: add your card to IP routing table, then add gateway also your
card:
/sbin/route add -net ${NETWORK} netmask ${NETMASK} eth0
(should be able to ping local network now)
gateway:
/sbin/route add default gw ${GATEWAY} netmask 0.0.0.0 metric 1
step 6: start inet deamon.
/usr/sbin/inetd
(you are on the network now)
*make sure that your kernel is built with network, fast_ethernet and
module
support. Otherwise, you have to rebuild your kernel.
(1:go to /usr/src/linux directory
2:run 'make menuconfig' or 'make config'
3:mark the options list above.
4:exit and rebuild your kernel.
make dep;make clean;make zImage
the file 'zImage' will be at /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage
5:modify /etc/lilo.conf.(this file specify where kernel image is)
6:run 'lilo' )
You can run 'netconfig' which will do step 4,5,6 for you.
Then just add a line at the beginning of '/etc/rc.d/init.d/network'.
'insmod /your driver path/rtl8139.o'
then your driver will work every time you boot.
