When I boot up I see the following message that I copied from dmesg:
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Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
SB 4.13 detected OK (220)
rtl8139.c:v1.06 3/16/99 Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/rtl8139.html
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xec80, IRQ 9, 00:00:b4:91:52:d3.
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Then later in the boot process, "Using DHCPC fot eth0.... failed"
Looks to be loaded OK to me but dhcpcd failing. But then when I do "lsmod"
there appears to be something wrong:
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Module Size Used by
rtl8139 10336 0 (autoclean) (unused)
sb 31414 0
uart401 5584 0 [sb]
sound 54412 0 [sb uart401]
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I don't know what that means. something bad I guess. I loaded the rtl8139
module manually, I downloaded rtl8139.c, compiled it accordingly then used
"install" to put it into /lib/modules/2.2.6/net. I heard that the module came
with the new kernel so I went back over the network part of "make xconfig" and
found the Realtek driver, but it's "greyed out" so I can't select YES or
MODULE, and nothing I do seems to affect it. This seems to suggest I haven't
selected something that the driver depends on, but I can't find what it
is/could be. Any suggestions? TIA
weston
Adam Rogoyski wrote:
> On Tue, 11 May 1999, Weston Sewell wrote:
>
> > I just upgraded my kernel to 2.2.6 (from 2.0.32 off the RH5.0 CD
> > <grin> ) and my sound card and network card both stopped working. I
> > have a Realtek 8139 NIC so I compiled the driver against the new kernel,
> > and installed that module. Now when my system is initializing, I don't
> > see any error messages, except that dhcpcd failed, and the light on my
> > NIC goes out just as it get's initialized.
>
> Is the driver loaded? When you load the module, does it complain? Can
> you bring up your eth0 interface without any problems?
>
> > The sound driver is less important. I'ts a REAL soundblaster 16 PnP
> > but I selected module for sound.o and did "make modules" and "make
> > modules_install" and sound.o is in the right place, along with it's
> > dependencies.
>
> Again, what happens when you load the module? Does lsmod show that
> it's even loaded? I believe you want to load the sb module for
> soundblaster.
>
> Adam
>
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