Friends,
As I did not find anyone to lend me the latest Debian CD's :D, I had to
look for alternatives. I convinced a acquaintance (who has a 128kbps line
in his office) to allow me to do a all night online install.
I went along and then there was this problem. His card is a Dlink
dfe-538tx and there was no driver for it. (I have Debian 2.2 rel 2
CD's). A quick search on the net told me that the chipset on that card is
a rtl8139 one. I tried the install again and there was a driver for this,
but it 'failed' to load.
Another quick search on the net told me that this is a problem with the
driver which comes with the 2.2.18pre21 kernel. They gave a .c driver file
and asked to compile and load it. But the compilation failed as it said
that the file was written for gcc 2.7 while I had 2.95.
Now I cannot update till I have access to the net. I will not have access
till the network card works. What shall I do? Can anyone send me a newer
version of the rtl8139 driver which I can load in the 'load extra drivers
from floppy' phase? It should also work with my current kernel...
Or any other solution...?
thanks,
quasi
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