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yes, the card is found by the bios, at boot time. it finds a free IRQ which i am certain is not used by anything else. because my previous card was old ISA that i manually locked to IRQ10. when i released that IRQ, the new card took it up automagically. i am using an abit BP6 mainboard, it has a pretty decent soft setup in the bios. i should have mentioned i am running LM8.0 2.4.3-20smp harddrake finds new hardware on boot but locks up when trying to configure the card. so, then i decided to try to manually add it via linuxconf. that is where i noticed most other cards in the list of available card types had the (inst) before the name of the driver. i assume this means Installed. as in the driver is already built in to the kernel? i was trying to compile the driver because that is what the instructions that came with the card told me to do. to build the .o file. funny thing is that none of the other NIC drivers that i found on my HD were .o files they all were .c i would gladly use the mandrake drivers. heck, i don't actually care who supplies the driver. ;-) moose. On Thursday 27 December 2001 15:05, you wrote: > I use the cards in a few of my Mandrake boxes. Mandrake 8.1 should have > seen it the first time the system booted - and a new hardware found > message should have been on the screen. > > Did you get that message? While I'm asking ... does the BIOS see the > card? What type of motherboard? and other hardware are you using? > Answer to those questions might help. > > FWIW: I use the drivers supplied by Mandrake and don't roll my own. > > Layne > > On Thu, 2001-12-27 at 11:19, mooseman wrote: > > X-RebelTech Is Here: http://www.rebeltech.ca > > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > > > hi all, > > i got a smc1244 10/100 netcard and it came with the rlt8139 driver, but i > > am having no success installing the driver. > > > > when i attempt to compile as per the instructions that came with the > > card, errors are thrown regarding a driver should never attempt to use > > kernel-headers, system headers. > > > > when i run linuxconf and try to select my card, the driver shows up but > > almost all the other cards show (inst) before the name. which i assume > > means driver installed or at least available. > > > > i had a look at the source of the driver in comparison to another driver > > and they look pretty much the same in the includes etc. > > > > so, i don't know how to proceed. from other postings, it seems that this > > should be a pretty easy card to install. i must be missing something. > > > > ideas? > > > > moose. > > > > > > ------------=_1009480632-11608-1973 > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
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