Thanks Wahid for replying to me again. I have reinstalled Mandrake 6.1 and
there was a driver there which I could use. Thanks for your help but I will
try to install it on my own with your instructions as I would treat this as a
learning experience for me. However, I may not reply back to you soon as I'm
trying to get another PC(likely a P200) to set up my test enviroment at home
to work on communication between NT, Win98 and Linux with samba but I will try
to get the hardware first before this.
Wahid Belhaouane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello Dickson ;
I could install the network adapter with no problem.
But like you , i have the message "Delay initialise of eth0" during the boot
of
the system.
But it has no effect : Internet works.
First , Mpx5030.c is not a good driver for our version of linux Mandrake
(sorry if
i sent to you the URL before testing it myself) , there were errors after
compiling it.
No problem , there's an other wich i am using now. go to this site and get
the
file rtl8139.c :
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/rtl8139.c
and compile it as the following line
gcc -DMODVERSIONS -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/net/inet -O6 -c
rtl8139.c
you will have a file rtl8139.o , this is our famous driver.
after that i inserted in the file /etc/inet.d/rc.local those lines at the end
of
it:
#-----------------------
/sbin/insmod /home/accton/rtl8139.o
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 193.95.40.54 broadcast 193.95.40.255 netmask
255.255.255.0
/sbin/route add -net 193.95.40.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 eth0
/sbin/route add default gw 193.95.40.1 netmask 0.0.0.0 metric 1
/usr/sbin/inetd
#-------------------------
Of course 193.95.40.54 : my adress ip
193.95.40.1 : Gateway
193.95.40.0 : Network
193.95.40.255 : Broadcast
/home/accton : is the place where i compiled rtl8139.c.
I hope i helped , please let me know if it works.
Wahid
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