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["Sheldon Isaac" <sisaac AT netaxs.com>]

Sorry to bother you with another newbie question:

This computer, "ASUS", can boot the RAMdisk version of BasicLinux 2.1, and 
the other one, "FIC", can boot it from hard drive.

Accoring to a file (see below) on the disc that came with the network card 
in the ASUS, one should use a rtl8139.o driver file?

So I found that at
http://ftp.tiscali.de/pub/slackware/slackware7.1/modules/2.2.16/net/rtl8139.
o

and got back into BL and eventually said

insmod rtl8139.o

and then when I said  lsmod  it showed up .

So I said   ifconfig eth0 192.74.53.10  as the Belkin text said to, and 
then when I said   ifconfig -a    it showed that address.

But when I went to the FIC computer and said   ping 192.74.53.10   the 
message said  Network is unreachable.

And the same thing happened on the ASUS when I said   ping 192.168.1.1  
which was the  inet addr:  shown on the FIC by  ifconfig -a

Does this have to do with the crossover cable?  That works fine when both 
computers are doing Windows.

Thanks a lot,

Sheldon Isaac

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                            Belkin Components
                  F5D5000 PCI Card / Desktop Network PCI Card
                       Driver Installation for LINUX
  Contents:
  ---------
    A) Driver Installation by Using Bundled Driver
    B) Driver Installation by Using Compiled Driver

A) Driver Installation by Using Bundled Driver
   ===========================================
   Some LINUX kernels had supported rtl8139 NIC. You can check whether
   rtl8139.o exists or not. If your LINUX (ex. RedHat 6.1 or above) can
   auto-detect rtl8139 NIC, you just skip the following installations and
   follow the screen's instructions to install rtl8139.o driver directly.

   1. Check the driver file "/lib/modules/2.0.XX/net/rtl8139.o".
      Where the XX is the version number of the latest kernel.

   2. Add "alias eth0 rtl8139" into the /etc/conf.modules file.

      cd /etc
      vi conf.modules
         alias eth0 rtl8139

   3. Run the following commands at the LINUX prompt.

      modprobe rtl8139

      ifconfig eth0 192.74.53.10

   4. Now, you can run 'ifconfig' or 'netstat -i' to see if there is a
      interface 'eth0'.

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