Subject: Re: Need Help with FE551 / Realtek ethernet
From: Jeff Ridder (jridder@gci.net)
Date: Thu Jul 27 2000 - 18:38:40 MDT
I had a similar problem and had to compile it into the kernel before it
would find it. This was on a PowerMac 4400
Jeff Ridder
jridder@gci.net
> From: Erik Burns <eiburns@rice.edu>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 18:36:33 -0500
> To: <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
> Subject: Need Help with FE551 / Realtek ethernet
>
> OK, I just recently installed YDL 1.2 and ran into a problem... any help
> would be appreciated.
>
> I have an FE551 card from MacSense. I went to their website, and they said
> that it uses the RealTek 8139 chipset, and that an 8139 driver should work
> for linux. The installer for YDL had, as one of the options, RealTek
> RTL8129/8139. I tried selecting this, and got the error message:
>
> "I can't find the device anywhere on your system!"
>
> I ended up telling it that I had no ethernet card and skipping that part of
> the installation. Does anyone know if YDL can run this card, and if so,
> what I need to do to get it running? It's not a hardware problem, because
> the card works great under MacOS 8.5 (with the FE551 driver).
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Erik
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