Good morning, Andrew. On Saturday 02 August 2003 08:50, Andrew McGuinness wrote: > Richard Lyons wrote: [...] > > [the driver] is the version distributed by the card maker... > > with the card. Looks out of date. No changelog on the disk. > > Is the card actually a pcmcia card (I understood it was) or is it > built-in to the thinkpad?
Yes it's a pcmcia card. Not built in. > > Can you run "cardctl ident" and send the output. This is what I get: segaccia:~# cardctl ident Socket 0: no product info available Socket 1: product info: "Realtek", "Rtl8139" manfid: 0x0000, 0x024c function: 6 (network) PCI id: 0x10ec, 0x8139 [...] > > The latest version on the realtek.com.tw site seems to be: > > > > Linux driver for kernel 2.4.x (RedHat 7.2 ) ver.1.60 2003/06/16 > > > > I tried to compile that, without success. At the risk of boring > > everyone I attach below the session to show what happened. > > Unfortunately that shows that it is basically the same driver > (8139too) as is built into the bf2.4 kernel already. Yes, I noticed that too. I assumed there must be different versions, because both Knoppix (Morphix) and Mandrake fire the card up correctly during install (from a couple of LF cover disks). -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
