Problems with VT6102 Rhine II PCI Fast Ethernet Controller

I need to install new drivers for my ethernet card from Cd. How can I do it?

What card?
Any "not extremely crappy" ethernet card should be supported by your distro.

Since most people can't read your mind, please give a lot more information.

thanks for reply
I dont know why I cant use my Nic

when I put ifconfig -a its not showing there. only Lo is being shown
I tried several options like "ifconfig eth0" and even tried "ifconfig eth0 up"
when I write "lspci"

the Ethernet Controller says VIA technologies VT6102

If this working how to enable it. or what shall I do

Check if the module is being loaded with lsmod. If it isn't,add /sbin/modprobe via-rhine to /etc/rc.d/rc.modules and it should load fine.

You don't need the CD.
I believe the module is via_rhine

As root try:

modprobe via_rhine

Then see if restarting your card gives you anything for eth0:

ifconfig eth0 up

If yes and you are using hotplug and 2.4 check /etc/rc.d/rc.modules and uncomment the line:

#/sbin/modprobe via_rhine

by removing the #

I use 2.6.17.13 and the module is there. Not sure about 2.4.

You might want to check that /etc/rc.d/rc.hotplug is executable. Hotplug should load this and if hotplug is not running, this might be why it's not loaded. To make it executable, as root do

chmod +x /etc/rc.d/rc.modules (might be named rc.modules-2.4.33.3 or similar - you will need to check your rc.d)

HTH

me slow typer

Also, either name works (via-rhine or via_rhine, but it's via-rhine in rc.modules)

root@bertha:/home/steve# modprobe via-rhine
root@bertha:/home/steve# lsmod
Module Size Used by
via_rhine 19460 0

thanks

But when i put both modprobe via_rhine or via_rhine it says Cant locate module.

Also how to add that thing in rc.module?

COuldnt find my Nic devices. It says device not found. Any solutions.

Please paste the output of

uname -a

and

ls /var/log/packages/kernel-*

It seems you don't have modules for your kernel.

modprobe -l | grep -i via

and c whether it is there. If the module is there then u modprobe

uname -a

"Linux ipphone 2.4.31 #6 Sun JUn 5 19:04:47 PDT 2005 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux

The other command said "No such file or directory"

modprobe -l | grep -i via

nothing came.

started next line with
"root@ipphone:~#

It seems something went wrong during install then, you should have kernel-ide, kernel-modules, etc. Did manually choose the packages during install?

Mount your slackware installation cd, get into slackware/a directory and install kernel-modules package.

[Sorry, double post]

Could you post the output of "lsmod" and "/sbin/lspci" please?

Which version of Slackware are you running? "cat /etc/slackware-version"
and which kernel are you running? "uname -a"

Please post that output also.