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karl@fhills.starway.net.au writes:

>Hi all,

>Does any one have (1) a version of Linux with support for the 8029
>realtek chips on PCI ethernet cards.
>(2) I have a driver but it seems it is meant for 1.2.13 linux and I am
>trying to compile it under 20.29 but get errors...
>(3) where do I look (doco) to install this support either in the
>kernel directly or an a loaded module?

Hmmm when you say 8029, do you mean (from drivers/ne.c):

static struct { unsigned short vendor, dev_id;}
pci_clone_list[] = {
        {PCI_VENDOR_ID_REALTEK,         PCI_DEVICE_ID_REALTEK_8029},
	.....

That is, a PCI ne2000 clone? The ones that come in green boxes for $32 at
any good swap meet?

I have just got two Linux boxes networking using these cards, quite
painlessly. The driver came with the 2.0.29 kernel, by the looks of
things (well, it did with the kernel source included with Debian 1.3.1,
anyway). I just built it as a module, then
	cat /proc/pci (to see what irq and io address it's on)
	insmod 8390
	insmod ne io=0x6000 irq=11
Works like a charm.

>Thanks in advance.

>karl

>karl@ccasoftware.com.au