On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, James Atkinson wrote about, Re: Why do my new kenels never work
right?:
> Thanks for the info Richard, however there is a small snag here..
>
> Running through make config I hit the stuff below...however..
> > Choose your options with y, n or m
> > Under;
> > Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit) (CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET)
> > you will find the following;
> > 3COM cards (CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM) [N/y/?]
> > The above has a default of N just hit enter to accept the default.
> > Western Digital/SMC cards (CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_SMC) [N/y/?]
> > AMD LANCE and PCnet (AT1500 and NE2100) support (CONFIG_LANCE) [N/y/m/?]
> > Racal-Interlan (Micom) NI cards (CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_RACAL) [N/y/?]
>
> *** This never shows up ***
> > RealTek 8129/8139 (not 8019/8029!) support (CONFIG_RTL8139) [N/y/m/?]
> Insted I get the Racal-Interlan then
>
> Other ISA cards (CONFIG_NET_ISA) [N/y/?]
>
> It never gives me the option to select the RealTek driver....so alas I'm still
> in the same place I was before...
Then the logical question is what kernel version source do you have, i cant
see that unless you tell me.
We tend on this list to take the stand that a newbie "normally speaking"
installs the latest distro.
I am talking kernel 2.2.xx here.
> - James
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Regards Richard
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