weston sorry for the really late reply, but it looks to me like you just
need to enable the option for 'other VLB / PCI NICs' or something like
that, I have an RTL 8139 on this box, and it's worked great w/ every
kernel I've had, from 2.0.36 to 2.2.5 and I'm compilng 2.2.9 now ;p
On Tue, 11 May 1999, Weston Sewell wrote:
> When I boot up I see the following message that I copied from dmesg:
>
>
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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.
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Module Size Used by
> rtl8139 10336 0 (autoclean) (unused)
> sb 31414 0
> uart401 5584 0 [sb]
> sound 54412 0 [sb uart401]
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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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