Insmod driver.o installed now what?!?!

From: bruce (blittle2_at_nyc.rr.com)
Date: 01/28/04 

Date: 27 Jan 2004 21:38:13 -0800

Sorry for the cross posting. Linux newbie, here. I am trying to phase
windows out of life by the end of this year, but at this rate, it may
take three.

For the past two weeks I have been trying to get online with my Redhat
7.2 distro and it does not seem to work. I was able to get online six
months ago until I had to replace my old smc NIC which had a crack in
its board.
Being cheap, I purchased a new NIC (Asound Myson mtd80x).
I had no problem installing the driver for my Windows partitions, but
Linux has been a hair pulling experiance. I have follwed the install
directions that came with the Asound drivers for Linux, but I'm not
sure where to go after I ping the localhost ip. I cannot ping outside
sites and I'm not sure if I'm binding the card correctly.

The instructions are as follows:

 Myson MTD80X Based Fast Ethernet Card
Linux 2.4.X Driver Installation Guide
               
-----------------------
Installation Procedure
-----------------------
1. Copy the compress file mtd80x-linux-2.4.x.tgz to /tmp directory,
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
        cp /mnt/floppy/linux-2.4.x/mtd80x-linux-2.4.x.tgz /tmp
2. Uncompress the file

        cd /tmp
        tar -zxvf mtd80x-linux-2.4.x.tgz

  3. Make network adapter driver modules

        touch *
        make clean
        make

 4. Insert network adapter driver modules

        insmod pci-scan.o
        insmod mtd80x.o
5. Bind your card to an IP address

        ifconfig eth0 {IPADDR} netmask {NETMASK}
6. Now, you should be able to ping local network.
*Every time you reboot the system, you must execute step 4 and step 5
  again to bind your card.
Compability:
         This driver is tested with the Distribution.
         
         RedHat 7.1/7.2/7.3

After I "bind" the card and ping the 127.0.0.1, I'm still not able to
get on the Internet. I know I'm missing a step, but not sure where to
go. I wanted try to see if I could find my mtd80.o driver by using the
network config gui interface in KDE, but no dice. The driver doesn't
even show up. Can anyone help.

My system:

Multi-boot
W2k Pro
W2k Server
Redhat 7.2 2.4.7-10

NIC: Myson Asound mtd80x

I do admit, this experiance has taught me alot about linux as far as
using commands and such so I really can't complain. I just feel like
I'm hitting a wall.
Thanks in advance.

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