Re: Newbie

From: CHris R (chrisripp_at_blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: 09/29/03 

Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 18:22:41 +0100

Thanks mate, but err...

I'm a real novice.
Still not sure what all that means?

"steve harris" <steveharris1@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:bl9pen$9kho2$1@ID-182617.news.uni-berlin.de...
> CHris R wrote:
> > Sorry.
> >
> > I'm using RedHat 8 and my network card is an SMC EZ card 10/100 PCI.
> >
>
> ok,
> it shows to use the rtl8139 module.
>
> I don't have a RH8 running, only 9 but not much different.
>
> Open a terminal window and SU to root.
>
> Do a lsmod and remove any NIC module that may be loaded.
> Do an "insmod rtl8139" and see what comes up. Hopefully it will be
> successful then you can set it to boot in /modules.conf and add an
> address and routing. Do a "ifconfig eth0 192.168.0.3" and see if you can
> ping it. (or whatever address you want)
>
> I wonder if the RedHat gui for network setup have any other rtl8139
> cards you could choose?
>
>
>