Tom, If I unplug my onboard NIC and try to ping anything or use the browser, I can't do it. Should everythin just use eth1 (the PCMCIA card) by default if I have no cable on eth0? If so , then I guess it's not working completely yet. I was able to make it "active" and it got a valid IP from the netork, so It looked to be working..at least that far.
Thanks, Chris -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Sightler Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 11:49 AM To: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (Tikanga) discussion mailing-list Subject: RE: [rhelv5-list] PCMCIA ethernet card on RHEL 5.2 On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 10:57 -1000, Chris Richmond wrote: > I inquired about using ndiswrapper and was told to avoid it if > possible..native if at all possible. > > When you say a "customer driver" what do you mean? That should have been "custom driver" as in, a slightly patched version of the Redhat driver. Based on your other comments it sounds like this is OK. So, I've placed a very slightly patched version of the 8139too driver from the latest RHEL5 kernel source package (2.6.18-128.1.1) at the following URL: http://www.tuxyturvy.com/files/8139too-pio.tar.gz The only changes from the Redhat source was to add the CONFIG_8139TOO_PIO to make the code compile with PIO support rather than MMIO support. I've included the patch below. To try this simply download the patch and extract it to a folder, make sure you have the kernel-devel package installed that matches your running kernel, switch to the extracted folder (should be called 8139too-pio) and type "make" and, assuming a successful build "make install", then reboot and see if the driver will actually load and recognize the hardware. If you have problems building or installing the module feel free to contact me offlist. 8139too.c.orig 2009-03-05 16:31:44.000000000 -0500 +++ 8139too.c 2009-03-05 16:38:56.000000000 -0500 @@ -121,6 +121,9 @@ /* enable PIO instead of MMIO, if CONFIG_8139TOO_PIO is selected */ +/* Force PIO MODE */ +#define CONFIG_8139TOO_PIO 1 + #ifdef CONFIG_8139TOO_PIO #define USE_IO_OPS 1 #endif Later, Tom _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
