Helge Fredriksen wrote:
lspci lists in one of it's lines:
00:10.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139 C+ (rev 10)
This probably means that the error from the beginning was believing that it's a national semiconductor nic while it was a very common realtek chip card...
Found this (as experimental) in the same place as the National Semincondutor driver, and thus enabled it with *. Recompiled and installed new kernel. WOW: eth0 up and running!
:) good! the [*] means that it's static in your kernel, so you don't need to modprobe it.
Got these warnings though:
8139cp: pci dev 0000:00:10.0 (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip 8139cp: Try the "8139too" driver instead.
you probably have both 8139cp and 8139too static in the kernel, so you get the first warning, but you also have support for the 8139too cards, so it's working anyway...
How can I build and install this module, since it seems that it's not part of kernel config? Any hints on documents describing such a process on crux?
Building the kernel is not a crux-specific issue, so it's not part of the crux documentation, but the subject of many generic how-tos and of part of the kernel documentation... it requires a good knowledge of the hardware you own or the need to make a very generic kernel. If you want to build "drivers" as modules you should have kernel modules enabled in Loadable module support --> Enable loadable module support Then go in Device Drivers->Network device support->Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)->Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit) and make sure that you press M on RealTek RTL-8129/8130/8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter support (NEW); this will show <M> beside it. Make sure an <M> shows on everything you want as module all along the menus of the menuconfig, and that [*] is selected for every piece of hardware that is needed for boot. The help will often hint you whether you need it or not... I think the kernel config on the boot-cd might be a good "inspiration", you could start from there and then gradually tune it for your system/needs.
Helge
bye, happy kernel-config-hacking ;) giorgio -- NullPointer || GnuPG/PGP Key-Id: 0x343B22E6