Subject: Re: Need Help with FE551 / Realtek ethernet
From: Erik Burns (eiburns@rice.edu)
Date: Thu Jul 27 2000 - 22:18:40 MDT
Hm... sorry to pester you more about it, but how exactly do I go about doing
that? Unfortunately, I'm very new to Linux... I downloaded the drivers,
and I have the rtl8139.c file that I assume I need for this... but what do I
do with it now? (This is on a UMAX C500)
Thanks,
Erik
> From: Jeff Ridder <jridder@gci.net>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 16:38:40 -0800
> To: <yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com>
> Subject: Re: Need Help with FE551 / Realtek ethernet
>
> 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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>>
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