Re: can't figure out what driver to use for eth on HP lapotop

[jeremy <jpetzold@earthlink.net>]

On Saturday 10 May 2003 1:07 am, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote:
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> On Friday 09 May 2003 09:33 am, jeremy wrote:
> > I have an HP zt1130 laptop and I can not figure out what drivers to use
> > to get the network card working.
> >
> > I am using the vanilla 2.4.20 kernel and have applied the ck6 meta patch
> >
> > http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/
> >
> > I thought I had a realtek network card but the realtek driver available
> > is not working.
> >
> > what do I need to make it work?
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > Jeremy Petzold
>
> Jeremy,
>
> I found this link:
> http://h20015.www2.hp.com/content/common/manuals/lpi05595/lpi05595.pdf;jses
>sionid=4JPQUDKI3RA5DQEXGRMEOSQ that indicates that you basic unit has an
> Realtek RTL8100L NIC.
>
> - From another link: 
> http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/428/2002/8/0/9377431/ This sounds like
> you are running an older version of the 8139too
> driver... grab the latest from http://sf.net/projects/gkernel/ or kernel
> 2.4.20-pre1.
>
> Google rules :)
>
> good luck, wishing you well.
>

but that cannot be becasue my current kernel is 2.4.18-bf and I have in the 
past set up 2.4.19 and this deals with 2.4.20.

also, I can ping my loop back address.

could it be anything else?

thanks,

Jeremy