Sometime Yesterday Mr. Q u a s i asked about,
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> I went along and then there was this problem. His card is a Dlink
>dfe-538tx and there was no driver for it. (I have Debian 2.2 rel 2 >CD's). A quick search on the net told me that the chipset on that >card is >a rtl8139 one. I tried the install again and there was a driver for >this, >but it 'failed' to load. > Another quick search on the net told me that this is a problem with >the >driver which comes with the 2.2.18pre21 kernel. They gave a .c >driver file >and asked to compile and load it. But the compilation failed as it >said >that the file was written for gcc 2.7 while I had 2.95. > >Now I cannot update till I have access to the net. I will not have >access >till the network card works. What shall I do? Can anyone send me a >newer >version of the rtl8139 driver which I can load in the 'load extra >drivers >from floppy' phase? It should also work with my current kernel...