At 13:32 23/08/00 -0400, Mike Dickson wrote:
>I'm trying to rebuild my kernel, but don't see an entry for the
>autodetected RTL8139 module. I can't very well rebuild it if it's not
>available! ;) Is this hidden somewhere in the kernel config? I see the
>actual file, but not the option in the UI to actually compile it.
The option itself is at
Network device support / Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit) / RealTek 8129/8139 (not
8019/8029!) support
In the menuconfig ui (and presumably also in xconfig) assuming you have the
other necessary stuff (AFAIK just saying "Y" to "Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)"
so as to enable basic ethernet support). As usual you can say "Y" to
compile it right into the kernel (if your machine is on the network all the
time and you don't make a habit of replacing your card, this is probably a
good idea).
On the other hand, if you've already got the module for it compiled and
you're not changing your kernel version number (and haven't actually
updated the code for that module) then you probably don't need to worry
about compiling it, you can just use the existing compiled module (the nice
thing about modules). If you do decide to compile a new module make sure
you read the part of the Kernel howto dealing with modules (basically do
"make modules modules_install" and related tasks at some point).
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