On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 09:43:32PM -0800, James Rende wrote: > Folks. > > I am trying to get my aging machine as far away from > Windows as humanly possible. I can't, however, get > Debian to recognize my NIC. When I try to run modprobe > rtl8139 as root, I get an error telling me that the > Device is not ready or in use. > > I'm running Debian 2.2r2 Kernel 2.2.17 > > The card is a DLink DFE-530TX+
As others have said, try the 8139too driver. You may also have to move to a newer kernel (2.2.19 or later). Be aware that DLink has put out several revisions of that card and some need newer/different versions of the 8139 driver. -- Ray