Mike Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-12-05 21:35:43 +0000]: > The normal 8139 driver dosnt seem to be part of 2.4.19 anymore only > the 8139too driver. I tryed getting it from Donalds site but I > wasnt sure of how to compile it and it had a heap of compile errors > when I tryed.
The Realtek driver is forked into two different versions. The first is the rtl8139 driver from Donald Becker who has been a long time champion of the network drivers. But his is not the one currently being distributed with the linux kernel. Currently distributed with the linux kernel is the 8139too driver maintained by Jeff Garzik which is a forked version of the rtl8139 driver source. I have had no problems with either driver and have used both of them at different times. The Debian install kernel has the 8139too driver compiled into the kernel. Therefore you don't need to select it manually nor do anything special to install the 2.4.18-bf24 kernel on your system. But as soon as you install an optimized kernel such as the 2.4.18-k7 kernel you will find that network drivers modules in the optimized kernels. At that time you will need to put '8139too' in /etc/modules so that it is loaded automatically. Bob
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