I had to switch pnp-support in the bios off (operating system other) in
order to make my integrated rtl8139 network card work. A symptom is
generally that the card is detected with a ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff station
address (ifconfig).
For more on this see:
http://www.scyld.com/expert/modules.html
Manfred
Mike Burger wrote:
>
> Ok...I got the yenta_socket entry in there and rebooted. It got a little
> farther. When I reran "insmod 3c59x" though, it told me that the module
> was already installed.
>
> I've got a line in my /etc/modules.conf that reads 'alias eth0
> 3c59x"...but the card still isn't being initialized properly.
>
> Any more ideas?
>
> I'll tackle the CD and such after this. <G>
>
> And thanks for the great suggestion.
>
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, kris buggenhout wrote:
>
> > Eric Sandeen wrote:
> >
> > > On 16 Feb 2001 21:04:45 -0400, Michael Burger wrote:
> > > > I'm running into a bit of a snag, and I'm hoping that this list is
> > > > the place to ask.
> > >
> > > It is. :)
> > >
> > > > The problem I'm having is in getting the 2.4.0 kernel supplied with
> > >
> > > > XFS and the ISO image to recognize my NIC...a 3Com 3c575 card. If
> > > > anyone has any helpful suggestions, I'd be most appreciative.
> > >
> >
> > I had the same problem on the same laptop...
> >
> > The problem is : the pcmcia core is not i8xxx but yenta_socket so edit
> > /etc/sysconfig/pcmcia and change the line PCIC=i82365 into
> > PCIC=yenta_socket
> >
> > this get's U half way ... now reinsmod the 3c59x module ... and presto
> > network
> >
> >
> > the other problem is devfs specific ... autoloading of certain devices
> > fails (like cdrom ...)
> >
> > just do a modprobe cdrom;modprobe ide-cd
> > then the /dev/hdc device file will be there.
> >
> > for the mouse ... thats another prob ...
> > it works under X though.... gpm -t ps2 -m /dev/psaux should do the
> > trick
> >
> >
> >
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