Well, actually, I did try that one, mainly because it looked so promising
(the magic number "8139" and all). It didn't work. So then I got
frustrated and went down the entire list and tried each and every module
listed, all to no good effect. :-) Is it picky about the I/O address or
anything (I'm pretty sure the BIOS is set to "Plug and play OS = NO" - would
that matter?). I dunno, I'm just guessing there. Maybe I've actually found
a bug. Wouldn't that be exciting for me.
Anyway, the thread titled "install hd.img for BusLogic" has a reference to
using expert mode to choose extra modules (quoting Guillaume Cottenceau:
"Copy it on an ext2-filesystem'ed floppy, type "expert" at boot time and put
this floppy as an additional modules floppy."). Silly me, not being so full
of myself as to consider myself an expert (I always choose expert or
"custom" when install M$ stuff, why not Linux stuff). :-) I'll see what I
can make of that tonight (build rtl8139.o on my 7.2 box and insert it using
expert mode).
I will also try 8139too.o again, just to make sure I'm not lying about it
not working. ;-)
Eaon
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robin Cook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 4:06 PM
> To: Eaon
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Cooker] rtl8139 on the network boot disk
>
>
> Hello Eaon,
>
> The module you are looking for is 8139too.o in the 2.4.0 kernels.
>
> Monday, January 29, 2001, 10:23:28 AM, you wrote:
>
> E> Second try - sent this last week and it never went through -
> was something
> E> broken perhaps? Or I got censored for being an idiot, who knows. ;-)
>
>
> E> Ok, go easy on me. I've just recently put on the chef's hat
> and entered the
> E> kitchen. But alas, I'm stuck at the door.
>
> E> I've mirrored cooker to a working machine running 7.2. I want
> to set up
> E> over the network (NFS) to another machine, so I created the
> network boot
> E> disk. But the system I'm going to install on has a DLink
> DFE-538TX card,
> E> which uses rtl8139.o. It's not in the list of available
> modules (though
> E> it's a decent card for the price, working for me on other machines - it
> E> should work). How do I a) add it to the list or b) get some
> nice person to
> E> see to it that the driver is on the next version of that disk?
>
> E> Or, inspiration strikes, could I ALT-F? to somewhere and
> insmod it manually?
> E> ATL-F3 and ALT-F4 have no prompt at which to type, so I'm not
> seeing this as
> E> a possibility, but perhaps...
>
> E> Eaon
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Robin mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
