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Ok, I am an extreme newbie here, so any and all help is appreciated.

One of my computers is based on a QDI LegenX DP motherboard with an
onboard Intel 10/100 NIC. The problem is that this NIC stopped Rx'ing
about 3 months ago, so I installed a Realtek 8139 PCI 10/100 card.
Since the onboard NIC cannot be disabled, the machine basically had
two operational ethernet controllers. Now, at the time I did it, the
machine was NT only and it worked fine.

The problem is that I just installed Mandrake 6.0 on it last week. The
Mandrake installation detected and set up the Intel NIC, but I can't
get it to do anything with the Realtek card. I found a module file
called rtl8139.c on the Internet, but I'm clueless as to what I do
with it.

Can anyone explain what I need to do/point me to a good walkthrough? I
found everything I need to configure the network AFTER the card is
recognized, but I'm lost as to the first step here.

Quote:>Ok, I am an extreme newbie here, so any and all help is appreciated.

>One of my computers is based on a QDI LegenX DP motherboard with an
>onboard Intel 10/100 NIC. The problem is that this NIC stopped Rx'ing
>about 3 months ago, so I installed a Realtek 8139 PCI 10/100 card.
>Since the onboard NIC cannot be disabled, the machine basically had
>two operational ethernet controllers. Now, at the time I did it, the
>machine was NT only and it worked fine.

>The problem is that I just installed Mandrake 6.0 on it last week. The
>Mandrake installation detected and set up the Intel NIC, but I can't
>get it to do anything with the Realtek card. I found a module file
>called rtl8139.c on the Internet, but I'm clueless as to what I do
>with it.

>Can anyone explain what I need to do/point me to a good walkthrough? I
>found everything I need to configure the network AFTER the card is
>recognized, but I'm lost as to the first step here.

Linux only checks for one card.
You can compile the second card as a module and do a "insmod module_name"
after startup.
Or tell the kernel to look for a 2nd card; read the boot-prompt howto

  You need to enable experimental drivers in the kernel config. The
realtek drivers are still in that category for whatever reason. They
should work fine. After you rebuild the kernel, but before doing a make
install, add this line to /etc/lilo.conf, just after the line that has
image = /vmlinuz or image = /boot/vmlinuz, add the line
        append = "ether=0,0,eth1"
and then do a make install. This will tell the kernel that two cards
exist and you want to use them both. Good luck.
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