HELP!! Compiling Driver for LAN Card

[Ultimate Z Fighter]

Ubuntu f@$^& did not detect my Card...........::__::.

 

[shashank4u]

z fighter is saying right.
ive the same problem while installing ubuntu at that time .i ve ubuntu
5.10.which doesn't detect the lan card.
what i m thinking is to install ubuntu 6.06 and also recommend zfighter to
install as it is latest and shud solve our problems.

 

[Ultimate Z Fighter]

Ya, I ordered it from Shipit!

10 CDs requested in 2006-07-29. 10 CDs approved and sent to the shipping company in 2006-08-01. Please note requests usually take from 4 to 6 weeks to deliver, depending on the country of shipping.

Or should I install the Gentoo Linux on the Digit DVD?

 

[mehulved]

Or should I install the Gentoo Linux on the Digit DVD?

Not such a good idea with your experience. Gentoo requires you to have some previous experience in linux to understand what you are doing. I'd rather say you don't try gentoo right away.

 

[Ultimate Z Fighter]

OMG, Ubuntu Sucks big time...I just downloaded Ubuntu Drapper iso. It took me a ****ing whole day...and guess what?? It failed to detect my LAN card!!

It was a live cd...Not error that It didnt detect any network card...nothing...Ubuntu ****in sucks...Even it doesnt have make and compiler pre-installed.

I quit PERIOD

 

[Venom]

Oh well... have a look.

*img309.imageshack.us/img309/3699/screenshotfs6.jpg

I guess it something to do with your PC, not Ubuntu, anyways, did you even try going to Networking and enabling DHCP for eth0 ? Does your card have issues with the mobo, works fine with windows?

It has a make and a compiler in it, atleast my shipit cd had it...

 

[Ultimate Z Fighter]

Oh well... have a look.

*img309.imageshack.us/img309/3699/screenshotfs6.jpg

I guess it something to do with your PC, not Ubuntu, anyways, did you even try going to Networking and enabling DHCP for eth0 ? Does your card have issues with the mobo, works fine with windows?

It has a make and a compiler in it, atleast my shipit cd had it...

I tried EVERYTHING

In the device manager, It shows up as an unknown device
The ifconfig doesnt show up any ethernet devices

My card works fine in windows

Whats 'mobo'?

Mine doesnt has any make and compiler

Bash : make : command not found

When I try to './configure' any source stuff. Many errors pop up:

Similar to this:

looking for cc...not found
looking for gcc...not found
...
(5-6 similar lines)
...
ERROR: No acceptable compiler found on $PATH

Do I have to set a path? What path? I cant even find where the fcukin compiler is....

 

[Venom]

mobo = mother board

I dont know if Live cds accept compiling etc... Feel sorry for you, somethings terribly strange, all distros work without a hitch for me :[

 

[Ultimate Z Fighter]

OMG I found the solution!!!

#modprobe rtl8139/8139too/8139cp

Now a new problem

The 8139too ad 8139cp module don't work...and When I try it on rtl8139, this error comes up:

FATAL: rtl8139 module not found

Help!! Where can I find the module...

Venom dude upload the module file somehow from /lib/modules/(version of linux)/kernel/net

ARGHHHHHH....even the live cd doesnt have the module...

 

[Venom]

Erm, my kernel is 2.6.15.26 ok.

Pardon my noobishness,, but which is the one you want ?
*img213.imageshack.us/img213/9425/screenshotzt9.png

Dude, the Live CD lacks a lot of stuff, please try to install and see, doesnt hurt does it? Even it all goes futile there are professional ones like SuSe and FC5 out there.

 

[shashank4u]

z fighter:
i am gonna to try my luck on fc 5 this time , cancelled ubuntu 6.06 as
u ve said it also dont detected tha lan card,have u installed it or checked
from live cd without installling,
fc5 shud sove my and yours problem i think .
so try out fc 5 .

 

[Ultimate Z Fighter]

Erm, my kernel is 2.6.15.26 ok.

Pardon my noobishness,, but which is the one you want ?
*img213.imageshack.us/img213/9425/screenshotzt9.png

Dude, the Live CD lacks a lot of stuff, please try to install and see, doesnt hurt does it? Even it all goes futile there are professional ones like SuSe and FC5 out there.

try searching for rtl8139.ko file...Dunno where it should be...but it is somewhere...

And I never wanted to download a live CD...I did it unknowingly

The mirror didnt tell me that it was a live CD.

Anyway, Now I'm trying my luck on Suse

z fighter:
i am gonna to try my luck on fc 5 this time , cancelled ubuntu 6.06 as
u ve said it also dont detected tha lan card,have u installed it or checked
from live cd without installling,
fc5 shud sove my and yours problem i think .
so try out fc 5 .

I've installed from the Live CD, but still nothing...

I'll be trying on SuSe 10.1 since I've had some bad experience with FC4 in teh past.

Still, if the LAN Card works out on FC, Let me know

 

[Venom]

Hey, Ubuntu disks are live as well as support install, dont you see an install button on your desktop ?

I searched for it but cant find, i mean that normal search, cant you point me to a specific loc?

 

[Ultimate Z Fighter]

Hey, Ubuntu disks are live as well as support install, dont you see an install button on your desktop ?

I searched for it but cant find, i mean that normal search, cant you point me to a specific loc?

Serach in teh File System

 

[mehulved]

Can you give me the output of

lsmod

 

[Venom]

Serach in teh File System

Done that, no results, do I have to do it as root? I think not though.

 

[Ultimate Z Fighter]

This is teh output of teh lsmod command + mod stuff:

ultimate@ultimate:~$ sudo modprobe 8139too
Password:
ultimate@ultimate:~$ sudo modprobe 8139cp
ultimate@ultimate:~$ sudo modprobe rtl8139
FATAL: Module rtl8139 not found.
ultimate@ultimate:~$ lsmod
Module Size Used by
8139cp 22528 0
8139too 26880 0
mii 5888 2 8139cp,8139too
r8169 28808 0
nls_utf8 2176 1
udf 88452 1
ipv6 265600 6
rfcomm 40216 0
l2cap 26244 5 rfcomm
bluetooth 49892 4 rfcomm,l2cap
ppdev 9220 0
speedstep_lib 4484 0
cpufreq_userspace 4696 0
cpufreq_stats 5636 0
freq_table 4740 1 cpufreq_stats
cpufreq_powersave 1920 0
cpufreq_ondemand 6428 0
cpufreq_conservative 7332 0
af_packet 22920 0
nls_iso8859_1 4224 2
nls_cp437 5888 2
vfat 13440 2
fat 53020 1 vfat
dm_mod 58936 1
md_mod 72532 0
lp 11844 0
rtc 13492 0
tsdev 8000 0
pcspkr 2180 0
snd_maestro3 25380 1
snd_ac97_codec 92704 1 snd_maestro3
snd_ac97_bus 2304 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss 53664 0
snd_mixer_oss 18688 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_mpu401 6728 0
snd_mpu401_uart 7808 1 snd_mpu401
floppy 62148 0
snd_rawmidi 25504 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 8716 1 snd_rawmidi
snd_pcm 89864 3 snd_maestro3,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 25220 1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 10632 1 snd_pcm
snd 55268 12 snd_maestro3,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_mpu401,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm,snd_timer
analog 12320 0
gameport 15496 1 analog
psmouse 36228 0
serio_raw 7300 0
soundcore 10208 1 snd
parport_pc 35780 1
parport 36296 3 ppdev,lp,parport_pc
i2c_i810 5252 0
hw_random 5652 0
intel_agp 22940 1
agpgart 34888 2 intel_agp
i2c_algo_bit 9608 1 i2c_i810
shpchp 45632 0
pci_hotplug 29236 1 shpchp
i2c_core 21904 1 i2c_algo_bit
evdev 9856 1
ext3 135688 1
jbd 58772 1 ext3
ide_generic 1536 0
uhci_hcd 33680 0
usbcore 129668 2 uhci_hcd
ide_cd 33028 1
cdrom 38560 1 ide_cd
ide_disk 17664 5
piix 11012 1
generic 5124 0
processor 23360 0
capability 5000 0
commoncap 7296 1 capability
vga16fb 13704 1
vgastate 10368 1 vga16fb
fbcon 42784 72
tileblit 2816 1 fbcon
font 8320 1 fbcon
bitblit 6272 1 fbcon
softcursor 2304 1 bitblit
ultimate@ultimate:~$ over and out

Yay Screenshots....!!!
Venom: Here is the module folder...

*ihost.za.net/files/4/Screenshot.png

I searched for '8139' in the Filesystem and then two results poped up. Right click>Open folder (sorta glitch...If you go directly to that folder...You wont be able to view the .ko files)

Here is device manager unknown: *ihost.za.net/files/4/Screenshot-1.png

And here is what happens when I try the ubuntu Driver database. It hangs on the Network step: *ihost.za.net/files/4/Screenshot-2.png

 

[Venom]

Dude thats the same folder I showed and asked where in... cant find these there

 

[Ultimate Z Fighter]

Login in as Root

 

[mehulved]

The kernel module is surely loaded. As you can see it yourself

mii 5888 2 [b]8139cp,8139too[/b]

Can you tell us about which net connection are you using and how did you configure?