Re: [newbie] Realtek driver and eth0 in general

[Jose Manuel Llorens Montolio]

A dj., 04 maig 2000, vāreu escriure:
> Hi guys
> 
> Sorry but i am a complete newbie both to Linux and to  this newsgroup, so 
> if these questions are too stupid or if they have already been answered 
> before, please bare with me and accept my apologies (but still give me a 
> coherent answer, please)
> 
> My Mandrake Linux 7.0 works very satisfactory and i had no trouble 
> whatsoever installing and configuring it. But although the program 
> correctly identified my network card, the card does not seem to work and 
> eth0 fails during the booting process. i tried to download the driver from 
> the Realtek site. Got two files - realtek_cb.o  and rtl8139.c

It's also my case, i have solved it executing the program knetstart and
selecting the option Dhcp. When one make that, he will find two problems. The
Knetstart will stay sending packages to the server and we have to kill this
process with: killall -9 knetstart. The second problem is that we can't start
the network at boot, since this program is a KDE program. I have try to
configure the network with Drakconf i had not success, and i don't understand
why knetstart configures the eth0 without problems and Drakconf is unable to
make it.

> 
> Tried to 'insmod' the realtek_cb.o file, but got a message that this file 
> was compiled for an older version of the kernel and the module would not 
> install even when i tried the -f switch. Now what should i do with the 
> rtl8139.c file? How can i install it as the driver?
> 
> If and when the card finally works, i have another question - The main 
> computer (not the Linux one) works under Windows98 and is connected to the 
> Linux computer via the Microsoft network client. i realize that i'll have 
> to use SAMBA, but my question concerned a much earlier stage - In that 
> Microsoft network, the main computer has the IP of 169.254.35.242 while the 
> Linux computer (which also works under Windows98) is assigned the IP of 
> 192.168.0.210. Linux seems to regard those two IP as belonging to two 
> different network systems. How can i reconcile it? (a guy from the PC Plus 
> sent me a wonderful configuration which worked fine on his machine but was 
> spat out by my Linux in utter disgust)
> 
> Yours, Dick
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