i am back to slack
 

hi every body
i used slack for a year but it needs alot of configurations so i suggested to use anther ease distribution
i used core 5 but i hate it soon
i have heared about suse 10.1 and its beautiful
so i tried it as well
but its packages wasn't complete
and there was problems with my lan card
what i was a fraid of
my lan filies need kernal 2.4 and so i can't install them to access the net
then what will happen when slack uses kernal 2.6
then i will not be able to access the net
then is there any solution for that
my lan card is:Realtek RTL8139 PCI Fast Ethernet Adapter

I don't see why you have to use kernel 2.4, because the driver for those cards is in 2.6.

my drivers support only kernal 2.4 ans 2.5

Again, there's a driver in the kernel for Reaktek RTL8139 cards.

I run a Realtek card with good results in my Slackware 10.2 box. I'm surprised you had difficulty with Suse 10.1, it found my Realtek card with no difficulty when I ran Suse 10.1 for a time.
But, yes, I also always come back to Slackware. There is no substitute for Slackware.:D

Come to think of it, my D-Link DFE-530TX card has the same chipset and I've definitely used that with 2.6 with no problems.

For that card you don't need to compile custom drivers... As said. 2.6 had a driver for it already and it works perfectly. So it is nice to have another slacker, but if that was your only concern, you shouldn't have switched back to slack.

here is my problem
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...39#post2317939

Same here, works without any configuration on a kernel 2.6:

Then you definitly NOT using Slackware but Suse, that command and that config file don't exist in Slackware.

And as it was already told, those drivers are included with 2.4 AND 2.6 kernels. You don't need to compile the drivers, at least, in Slackware, the modules are already built and probably hotplug detected the card and loaded the modules for it. If not then you can modprobe 8139too

To check if the card is being detected, try: dmesg | grep eth
at boot (I don't remember if installation disk loads the module, but after installed it should do it fine).

I agree. My dell laptop has a Realtek card with it and When I was upgrading kernels it worked fine once I found out how to properly setup a new kernel.

hi
i've run linux with rtl8139 chipsets for several years now (8139b - d) suse supports them all. my last install 9.1 autodetected the networkcard. the module for 2.4 kernel is 8139too.
in 2.6.16+ kernels the module has a different name (something like 8139so)
I got errormessages during boot after upgrading kernel (module 8139too not found)
network didnt work with 2.6 kernel naturally.
so i compiled the module in the kernel. network worked but errormessages didn't disappear (and i couldnt find their place itf startupscripts because they changed everything since suse 6.1 [first reason im using slack now]).

if you want a 2.6 kernel and get problems with your 8139 chipset compile it into the kernel

campher

(this is my first post so dont beat me for mistakes)

That is a very common card. I don't see why any 2.* kernal would have a problem with it!

could u explain more

Explain what?