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Thanks for any help you can provide,
-Michael Powers

Quote:>Hi! I've recently installed Linux on a system with a PCI Ethernet card (with
>a realtek chip, I think).  Problem is, when I installed it did not detect it
>or create an eth0 driver file.  I successfully compiled the driver and
>installed it to /lib/modules/2.2.12-20/net and added an entry in
>/etc/conf.modules for eth0, but I get no messages at boot time that it is
>bringing up the device.  So I guess I need to create the device files, but
>I'm not completely sure how to do it (and I don't know if this will solve
>the problem either- there may be other things I haven't done) .

Or if you chose autoloading when compiling the kernel
(I don't think it is on by default,
at least in the kernel that comes with RH-6.1)
then it should be installed when required.

If it were me, I would try compiling the kernel
with the driver included, not as a module.

If that worked, I might try "out-sourcing" it as a module.

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Timothy Murphy  

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