[realtek] Problems installing the RTL8139 driver

[Olli Salonen]

Hi,

I'm having the following problem, and being a complete Linux-newbie I
don't know where to start.

I run Mandrake 7.2, which came with the 1.07 version of the RTL8139
driver. Anyway, I downloaded the binary RPM package and installed it. I
copied the pci-scan.o and rtl8139.o files over my previous files at
/lib/modules/2.2.17-21mdk/net and booted. Didn't work though.

When I try to insmod the rtl8139.o I get the following errors (insmod
pci-scan.o works fine though):
rtl8139.o: unresolved symbol skb_over_panic_Rff4558c6
rtl8139.o: unresolved symbol eth_type_trans_R268fea4a
rtl8139.o: unresolved symbol pci_drv_unregister
rtl8139.o: unresolved symbol netif_rx_R507bc694
rtl8139.o: unresolved symbol dev_close_Rf2863777
rtl8139.o: unresolved symbol __kfree_skb_Rb199cc61
rtl8139.o: unresolved symbol alloc_skb_Rbb37a2d1
rtl8139.o: unresolved symbol eth_copy_and_sum_R8c7c58f8
rtl8139.o: unresolved symbol unregister_netdev_Ref7eb65d
rtl8139.o: unresolved symbol init_etherdev_Rf1ebeb5a
rtl8139.o: unresolved symbol pci_drv_register

I also tried download the source files, but when I try to compile I get
something like this:

gcc -DMODULE -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c rtl8139.c

In file included from /usr/include/linux/string.h:37,
                 from rtl8139.c:99:
/usr/include/asm/string.h:46: parse error before `size_t'
/usr/include/asm/string.h: In function `strncpy':
/usr/include/asm/string.h:47: number of arguments doesn't match prototype
/usr/include/linux/string.h:13: prototype declaration
....... this goes on for several screens ...

System works with the 1.07 driver ok, should I just use that?

Thank you in advance,
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