Hi, I am running Red Hat Enterprise release WS 3. I have an ethernet card, rtl8139. I recently downloaded the driver for the nic and compiled it from source using the make utility (the driver came along with the associated Makefile). I saved the source file in /usr/src/kernel-version/drivers/net and the object file 8139too.o in /lib/kernel-version/modules/drivers/net. I then updated the entry for eth0 in /etc/modules.conf, when I tried running the network config wizard tool, it said that it couldn't find module 8139too. I tried running inismod 8139too but it gave a module_init() error. I also tried the same with 8139cp but the dmesg output said 'try using 8139too instead'. Please help.

the 8139 too module has been standard inside every default kernel for many many years, if anything i'd imaging your attempts to build your own and replacing the working one that was already there could be a key... there was no need to build your own.

I had the same problem even before I recompiled the thing from source. I was snooping around a little with make xconfig, I found the support for realtek drivers turned off! Is there anything I can do now?