Hi, Got a little problem here in settings of my ethernet card. When booting with 2.2.18 I have to configure the card as rtl8139 When booting with 2.4.2 I have to configure the card as 8139too Is there some fix or is there a possibility to make some alias arangment in modules.conf so that when booting a kernel, it chooses the right alias. TIA. Filip.
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, filip wrote:
Got a little problem here in settings of my ethernet card. When booting with 2.2.18 I have to configure the card as rtl8139 When booting with 2.4.2 I have to configure the card as 8139too
Is there some fix or is there a possibility to make some alias arangment in modules.conf so that when booting a kernel, it chooses the right alias.
The easiest way to handle this is to compile the driver into the kernel and the correct driver will automatically be loaded. Christopher
On Tuesday 13 March 2001 18:40, Christopher D. Reimer wrote:
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, filip wrote:
Got a little problem here in settings of my ethernet card. When booting with 2.2.18 I have to configure the card as rtl8139 When booting with 2.4.2 I have to configure the card as 8139too
Is there some fix or is there a possibility to make some alias arangment in modules.conf so that when booting a kernel, it chooses the right alias.
The easiest way to handle this is to compile the driver into the kernel and the correct driver will automatically be loaded.
Christopher
Alternatively, (easier?) cd /lib/modules/2.4.0-4GB/kernel/drivers/net ln 8139too.o rtl8139.o depmod -a Hope it helps, _____________ Alvaro Novo SuSE 7.1 -=- Kernel 2.4.2-4 -=- KDE 2.1 7:30pm up 8:32, 3 users, load average: 0.26, 0.12, 0.04
filip wrote:
Got a little problem here in settings of my ethernet card. When booting with 2.2.18 I have to configure the card as rtl8139 When booting with 2.4.2 I have to configure the card as 8139too
Is there some fix or is there a possibility to make some alias arangment in modules.conf so that when booting a kernel, it chooses the right alias.
What about putting it in the initrd? You may also be able to do this by passing the kernel a parameter, but I'm not sure. Bye, Chris -- __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
Filip I'm testing the RTL8139 chip too. Another easy way around this- is to edit the 4th line of the TOP level makefile (/usr/src/linux/Makfile) like this EXTRAVERSION=RTL8139 This will create a UNIQUE directory for the modules when you compile the kernel. IF you add a new kernel source tree, then add some unique suffix such as EXTRAVERSION=RTL8139-1 When I compile the kernel, I also do the following cp System.map /boot/System.map-dp83815 cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage-dp83815 Then I add this entry to /etc/lilo.conf, DONT FORGET TO RUN LILO ! If you don't get your paths right, you'll end up with an error message at boot time stating the modules can't be loaded, or something like that. It looks like a complicated process, but it works for me, and is pretty easy to script. At 08:46 PM 3/14/01 +0000, Chris Reeves wrote:
filip wrote:
Got a little problem here in settings of my ethernet card. When booting with 2.2.18 I have to configure the card as rtl8139 When booting with 2.4.2 I have to configure the card as 8139too
Is there some fix or is there a possibility to make some alias arangment in modules.conf so that when booting a kernel, it chooses the right alias.
What about putting it in the initrd? You may also be able to do this by passing the kernel a parameter, but I'm not sure.
Bye, Chris -- __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
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Hi, Thanks to all, very instructif. SuSE gave some quick setup via there portal and sdb : http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/mjb_rtl8139_24.html Cheers, Filip. Le Jeudi 15 Mars 2001 01:19, Tony C a écrit :
Filip
I'm testing the RTL8139 chip too.
Another easy way around this- is to edit the 4th line of the TOP level makefile (/usr/src/linux/Makfile) like this
EXTRAVERSION=RTL8139
This will create a UNIQUE directory for the modules when you compile the kernel. IF you add a new kernel source tree, then add some unique suffix such as
EXTRAVERSION=RTL8139-1
When I compile the kernel, I also do the following
cp System.map /boot/System.map-dp83815
cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage-dp83815
Then I add this entry to /etc/lilo.conf,
DONT FORGET TO RUN LILO !
If you don't get your paths right, you'll end up with an error message at boot time stating the modules can't be loaded, or something like that.
It looks like a complicated process, but it works for me, and is pretty easy to script.
At 08:46 PM 3/14/01 +0000, Chris Reeves wrote:
filip wrote:
Got a little problem here in settings of my ethernet card. When booting with 2.2.18 I have to configure the card as rtl8139 When booting with 2.4.2 I have to configure the card as 8139too
Is there some fix or is there a possibility to make some alias arangment in modules.conf so that when booting a kernel, it chooses the right alias.
What about putting it in the initrd? You may also be able to do this by passing the kernel a parameter, but I'm not sure.
Bye, Chris -- __ _ -o)/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ Chris Reeves /\\ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ICQ# 22219005 _\_v __/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
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I have the Realtek chip as well. With SuSE 6.4 I had a fast network, applications loaded from the other computer as quick as from the local hard drive. I updated to 7.1, kernel 2.2.18, and it is automatically installed as 8319too. Now the performance is a disaster. The net runs in burst mode, fast for a second, then three seconds no transmission, then fast again, so applications take about four times as long to load. Should I change back to the rtl8319 module? Or could it be because the receiving computer now has reiserfs? David. -- David Herbison Design Engineer, Mixed Signal IC-Design Infineon Technologies AG Tel: +49 89 234 26647 Fax: +49 89 234 711815 Email: David.Herbison@infineon.com
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