I recently bought a NetGear ethernet card and set it up in windows just fine. I am running Mandrake Linux 8.0 with kernel version 2.4.3-20. I tried to insmod 8139too.o and got the following message:
/lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/kernel/drivers/net/8139too.o.gz: init_module: no such device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.

When I ran modprobe I got the following message:
/lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/kernel/drivers/net/8139too.o.gz: no such device
Hint: modprobe errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.

/lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/kernel/drivers/net/8139too.o.gz: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/kernel/drivers/net/8139too.o.gz: failed

/lib/modules/2.4.3-20mdk/kernel/drivers/net/8139too.o.gz: insmod 8139too failed.

I am really new to linux so if you have an answer, please put it in idiot's terms

Thanks for any help you give.

that sounds to me like you need to unpack the file using gzip or some other unzipping program. All of my drivers have just the .o w/o the .o.gz part.
Try unzipping the file and then redoing the insmod part. If that doesn't work wait till someone else has a better solution.

I will try that again, however I think I already did that and it gave some error messages. I will try it again and post any error messages that i get. thanks

My uncle was helping me initially and we(he) thought that the driver is looking for a config file, but we don't know where the default config files are stored.

I am not sure if it needs a config file. To my knowledge it does not. I do know that every driver that I have installed all used file.o and weren't gzipped or anything like that.

odd advice....hmm..anyway

well you should just need to add a line like "alias etho 8139too" to /etc/modules.conf and then use netconfig to specify the network parameters.

the gzip thing is just used in big stock kernels to make them take up a little less space, and they are extracted automatically on use.

Compressed kernel modules such as *.o.gz have just been a rather silly way of saving space for quite some time, their automagically decompressed on insertion. The one thing I was kind of curious about is are you certain this card should be taking the rtl8139/8139too module? What's the output of "lspci"?

Cheers,

Finegan

acid_kewpie:

thanks for the help...im trying that right now. I don't really need to define the IO and IRQ stuff do I?

Ok...I modified the modules.conf file. I tried insmod again and it came up with the same error messages. I'm not sure where to go from here. Here are the generated error messages again:

insmod: /lib/.............../8139too.0.gz: no such file or directory insmod: insmod /lib/......./8139too.o.gz: failed
insmod: insmod 8139too failed

Someone here told me to use the Ispci command...I tried and it said
bash: Ispci: command not found.

lspci, not Ispci

no, you shouldn't need to define irq's or anything

lol. Thanks. that should definitely help. If the network card works, then ifconfig should show that, right? The error message I keep getting is "no such device" and I don't know what it is talking about.

I'm not sure if I clarified what my card is. It is a NETGEAR FA311 Fast Ethernet PCI Adapter. I have the FA311 mod on floppy, but it only supports some versions of RedHat, but I have Mandrake Linux.