On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 14:18, civileme wrote: > 8139too is compiled into the kernel as a module--you should not have > needed it at all...
OK, Mandrake 8.2 does not recognise my NIC, which is a Surecom EP-320X-R. It lists it as an unkown PCI device in the control centre. A driver (fealnx.c) was included with it on a floppy, but it seems really old and doesn't compile at all for me. I've read that this card doesn't work particularly well with 8139too, so I would have preferred to be able to use the rtl8139 driver because I've read that has better results. I just have no idea how to do this, really, because I've been using Linux since RedHat 5.2 but I've never tried networking with another computer before, and being in Australia I have a dialup connection, as most people here still do (stupid 3GB/month download caps, etc. whine whine). Any tips about setting this up? > > I would say save your data and do a fresh install, then Is this problem really likely to be from doing an upgrade? Most things seem to be running fine, and I'm pretty much out of disk space on my other partitions, and I don't have my cd burner working under linux yet.... It's not impossible for me to back up my data but I'd rather not have to if I can avoid it. > > chkconfig --del alsa > > and edit /etc/modules.conf > > to plug in the OSS driver for your sound card. (Look in > /lib/modules/(kernelnumber)/kernel/drivers/sound) > > and > > alias sound (modulename without the .o) > I wanted to replace the OSS driver with the ALSA driver, not the other way around. I've done this before, and the ALSA howto is very nice... my only problem is the unresolved symbols errors when I try to insmod the driver module. Is there a simple way of fixing this? Thanks for your help so far :) Lisa Evans
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