I don't know but I got a rtl8139 card working with 2.4.2 and I never had to change anything in modules.conf. I'd check what is in modules.conf but I don't have access to the machine right now. The module is called rtl8139.o and I don't think 8139too will work. The card worked right off the bat for me. /lib/modules/2.4.2-4GB/kernel/drivers/net mk

From: Paul Abrahams To: "SuSE listserve ." Subject: Re: [SLE] Does Realtek 8139 chip work with kernel 2.4.2? Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 22:42:04 -0400

Purple Shirt wrote:

...

I may be wrong but did you turn on the network card using yast? Are you doing this by hand or using yast to set the card up. I did an installation using 2.2 kernel the other day. I set up the network card. Then I installed 2.4 kernel and the network card would fault on me. I went into yast and the settings were gone. It was like I had to set the card up twice, once for 2.2 and once for 2.4.

Yast merely writes an appropriate alias to the modules.conf file. Actually, in the case of this card the alias isn't quite right . Yast writes

alias eth0 rtl8139

rather than

alias eth0 8139too

The SuSE website has a page on this subject, noting that 8139too is what should be used with 2.4.x kernels.

In any event, switching kernels normally does not modify /etc/modules.conf.

Paul Abrahams

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