Strange that it doesn't show up in menuconfig for 2.2.16 I downloaded 20
minutes ago. I wonder why...
At 04:17 PM 23/08/2000 -0300, you wrote:
>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).
>--
>
>Who is this General Failure, and why is he reading my hard disk?
>
>
>
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