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On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 07:46:19PM -0800, rick philbrick wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> |
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> In trying to get the rtl8139 to work on previous |
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> versions of gentoo I came across a problem due to the |
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> driver being mislabeled. I brought it up then but it |
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> is still there....in original condition. |
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> Its wrong (my guess) in two places. |
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> First in /lib/modules..../drivers/net/rtl8139too.o |
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> To resolve this I did a cp rtl8139too.o rtl8139.o |
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> And then in the modules.dep file |
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> To resolve that I had to add the path to rtl8139.o |
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> One of the NICs this driver supports is the DFE-530+TX |
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> by DLink. Yes I realize that it is widely thought of |
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> as a POS but its also very cheap. I am cheap so it |
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> suits me fine. I have had lots of luck with it. |
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> |
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> Hoping it gets fixed |
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> RIckp |
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It was intentionally labeled this way by its author, Jeff Garzik |
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<jgarzik@××××××××××××.com>. There are special instructions |
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(/usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/8139too.txt) on how to enable it. |
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It's strange that it isn't enabled by default, since there's no other rtl8139 |
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driver in the kernel. |
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Do me a favor; email Jeff and let him know that the driver works well for you |
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and ask him about why it's not enabled in the kernel by default, since there |
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appears to be no other rtl8139 driver available. In the meantime, I'll patch |
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our most recent kernel ebuilds to enable it automatically. Let me know what |
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he says. |
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Best Regards, |
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-- |
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Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> |
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President/CEO http://www.gentoo.org |
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Gentoo Technologies, Inc. |
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