[realtek] PCI problem on IBM Thinkpad

[Donald Becker]

On 4 Jan 2002, Anurag M Phadke wrote:
> I am having IBM Thinkpad i-1200 series laptop. I bought a PCI-Ethernet
> 10/100MBPS Lan Card (8239 chipset) and tried installing it on RedHat 7.1
> Whenever I insert this card, I keep getting the error:
> Intializing Device.
> Invalid PCI region size(s), aborting.

I'm guessing that you have a CardBus card, not PCI.
This is likely a bug from the 2.4 kernel PCMCIA support that tries to
allocate a region of lenght "-1".

> I tried to install realtek drivers but keep getting gcc errors such as :
> Missing operand ";" etc.

That's not very specific...

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