Re: A fact & a problem

[Victor <v.demart@dada.it>]

Sorry for my being so insistent but HOW I can do it?
Vittorio

On Monday 19 March 2001 16:35, Norman Schmidt wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have more than one realtek card in my computer (Debian 2.2r2 potato).
>
> While installing Debian, you have to load the realtek module for the
> card. Later, I have compiled my own kernels (so far 2.2.17 and 2.2.18)
> with the realtek driver compiled into it (monolithic). No problems
> whatsoever.
> As sources for that I took the original ones from ftp.kernel.org and
> didn´t do it the debian way.
>
> This is imho totally inependent of the distribution, since the realtek
> code is in the unpatched kernel source.
>
> Hope this helps, Norman.
>
> vdemart@supereva.it schrieb:
> > Yeah Sean,
> > I know, but unfortunately in the 2.2.18pre21 potato kernel there's no
> > support for Realtek NICs whilst there is even in the older versions in
> > RedHat & Suse. Again, my question is: how can I overcome the snag and
> > compile the source module rltk3189.c in the best way under potato?
> > Vittorio