On Wed, 20 Oct 1999, aphro wrote: : curious as to why there was no realtek 8139 driver included in slink. and : it doesnt appear as an option in the kernel that slink comes with (2.2.12 : currently -- using the CD from the new O'reilley book) even tho the : rtl8139.c file is there(it failed to compile as a module for some reason) : : gonna try again with the 2.0.36, hope i can get the NIC working the only : other machine i got has no floppy drive. dont want to burn a cd with only : 10mb on it :/
Dunno why the module isn't on the CD by default. If you compile your own kernel you need to say "Y" to "Experimental/Development Drivers" (or something to that effect. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet 410 South Phillips Avenue Sioux Falls, SD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9)
