[Solved] Re: Getting Realtek8139 chipset network card to work

["Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho" <nemanuel@student.dei.uc.pt>]

> On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 09:04:30PM -0400, Fraser Campbell wrote:
> > Funny I just wrestled with this one yesterday.  I've always (since it was
> > available) built my kernels using "make menuconfig", nowhere in the network
> > device section could I find an option for RTL8139 and I spent a long time
> > looking!

Hi,

 Actually it's simple to get it to work.
 There's no need to select any option on kernel (neither select 10/100 Mbit
ethernet option from kernel ...).
 What I did was:

  1. obtain the rtl8139.o doing (the following line it's on the last line from
source code) :

   gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c rtl8139.c `[ -f
/usr/include/linux/modversions.h ] && echo -DMODVERSIONS`

  2. insert rtl8139 as module on kernel

    insmod rtl8139.o

  3. configure all IP's, netmasks, etc


  and that's all ! :)

 It works.

 As it worked i didn't tried your solution.

 Thanks.

 Best regards,
   Nuno Carvalho