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["Sheldon Isaac" <SheldonIsaac AT MyRealBox.com>]

Steven said:

> It works fine for me (in Pentium MMX).  So does 8139too.
> I get no unresolved symbol message.

On 6 Mar 2006 at 18:04, sindi keesan wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Mar 2006, Sheldon Isaac wrote:
SNIP
> > insmod  rtl8139
> > results in
> > unresolved symbol skb_pad
> >
> > I thought it was the same rtl8139.o I'd used in the past just fine, with
> > BL3.32 ?

I looked and looked, and there were copies of two different rtl8139.o files 
scattered around two computers  (asus  and   other );  the "good" one is 
16,948 bytes, and the one which I could not insmod was 17,076 bytes????  

> I had a problem with a PCMCIA ethernet module and also PCMCIA modem, with 
> 2.2.26.  In the config file for the small BL3.40 kernel, rtl8139 is NOT 
> included as a module.  Have you tried the 'big' kernel, which does include 
> such support, for BL3.40 with rtl8139.o ?  If that works, maybe Steven 
> should recompile the small kernel with some specific ethernet module 
> support.  (I should also try it with the laptop ethernet card).

config and such is more advanced than I've gotten to.

Thanks for trying to help, Sindi.

As I said, the 16,948 bytes  rtl8139.o  seems to work with BL 2.26

A year ago?  I used  BL 3.32?  on this computer, "asus", and  BL 2.1 on 
computer  "other".
Steven had helped me to get nfs working, said  bzimage (for Slackware 7.1?) 
was needed.  On which computer?  I put the rpc.* files (by  installpkg 
tcpicp1.tgz)  on  computer  "other", and they show up when I say  ps  on that 
computer.

But now when I try to   mount -t nfs  192.168.1.1:/  /other    
it won't do it.

Maybe the  linux kernel that comes with BL 3.40 can't do nfs,  and Steven 
told me about the   zimage   that came with BL 3.32?

Does the Linux version 2.2.26  vs the  2.2.16 of previous years have 
something to do with all this?

What about the bzimage (735,763 bytes) that I used to use?  Is it OK to use 
it with BL 3.40?

Oh, did you mean try 
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/baslinux/add-ons/2_2_26/bzimage.big
with BL3.40?  I will try that.

What does one gain or lose with which combinations?

Help, can someone make a summary/FAQ/comparison-chart?


Thanks,
Sheldon