Re: the installation of RTL8139c.

From: cfk (cfk_alter_ego_at_pacbell.net)
Date: 10/29/03 

Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 14:58:12 GMT

It might be possible that you have more then one rtl8139too.o module. You
might check all the subdirectories under /lib/modules where you might have
in the case of a RedHat8 system:

/lib/modules/2.4.18-14
/lib/modules/2.4.18-14custom

It turns out that RedHat sets a string in the /usr/src/linux/Makefile for
EXTRAVERSION=-14custom and it also turns out that the file
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/versions.h contains a similar definition called
UTS_RELEASE which in RedHat8 will be

#define UTS_RELEASE "2.4.18-14custom"

This, of course, is only the example for a stock RedHat8 installation with
no kernel.org kernel tree overlayed on it.

My point is that there are usually more then one tree of modules in
/lib/modules and it is easy to get confused by duplicates and load one when
you think you are loading the other.

HTH, Charles