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Re: Help! Ethernet Card Configuring problem

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From: Mesa Kameswara R
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 00:00
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Just for the last resort of your journey,...
Include it in your kernel ==>meaning you know,...
Compile a new kernel,...:-)

HTH
Mesa

Shallis Mask wrote:
> 
> I have a D-Link PCI Ethernet card. It came with the source code , and when i
> compiled it , it automatically put the .o file (rt18139.o) into the correct
> directory /lib/modules/"uname -r'/net. It also put the driver into the
> dependent file(modules.dep) into /lib/modules/'uname -r'/modules.dep .  I
> get no problem inserting the object file(rt18139.o) into the kernel using
> "insmod rt18139.o" in any directory and using "modprobe rt18139.o" only in
> the net directory above (lib/modules and etc) . The Problem is using
> modprobe anywhere else . Everytime i use "modprobe rt18139.o" ,"modprobe
> eth0" ( I have "alias eth0 rt18139" in my conf.modules file), "modprobe
> rt18139", i get the error " can't find module". i thought that maybe
> modprobe path was incorrect, so i would put in the full path "modprobe
> /lib/modules/'uname -r'/net/rt18139.o" and i would get the error "not in
> dependent file, but it is. So i thought maybe modprobe and depmod were
> looking in the wrong place, so in my conf.modules file i put the  path and
> the dependent file path, and i am still getting the same problems.  The
> default of modprobe and depmod, are the exact places where my files are. I
> have been trying  weeks, trying everything possible  in figuring out this
> problem. I am at the end of my rope.  I need modprobe to work correctly to
> connect to my universities LAN.  Should i not worry about modprobe ( Is
> there an alternative). Does anyone have any advice or solutions for this. I
> would really appreciate it. Thank You?
> 
> S. T. Mask
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