On Tue, 23 Dec 2003 19:19:09 +0900 (JST) Charles Muller <acmuller@gol.com> wrote: > After spending a day trying to get my ADSL connection working on Woody > to no avail, I figured I'd download the Sarge CD's, and give a try. In > the process of HW detection, early in the installation, I got: > > The rtl8139 module required for Realtek RTL-8139 is missing from > this installation disk. If you want to load it from a driver > floppy, then insert this floppy disk before proceeding > > A driver floppy is a ext2 floppy with one file, modules.tgz. The > content of modules.tgz is unpackaged in the installation root > directory. > > My network adapter is indeed this one, so I went to the Realtek site, > downloaded the driver for the 2.4 kernel, formatted a floppy as ext2, > packed the driver into a file named modules.tgz, copied to the floppy > and gave it a try. The error message is: > > mount: mounting /dev/floppy/0 on /mnt failed: no such file or > directory > > Any suggestions? > > Chuck > > --------------------------- > Charles Muller > > Toyo Gakuen University > Faculty of Humanities > 1660 Hiregasaki, Nagareyama-shi > Chiba 270-0161 JAPAN > > <acmuller@gol.com> > http://www.acmuller.net > Mobile Phone: 090-9310-1787 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmaster@lists.debian.org > Hi First: you do not need any driver from realtek, it is included in the kernel sources Second: From the config File of the bf2.4 floppies i gather that the driver is compiled in the kernel, so you don't need the module Third: if you want/need to use the drivers from the modules.tgz you can get it either from the debian mirror as a whole or as disk images for installation (for both you need to get the coresponding one for the disk images you use...) so, did you use a bf2.4 series floppy or a standard floppy ? if not, try the bf2.4 series...on modern hardware a 2.4 series kernel is really a good thing... I hope I could help. yours Albert Dengg -- Albert Dengg <a_d@gmx.at>
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