I have the line options rtl8139 io=0xdc00 irq=10 in etc/modules, is this what you mean? It was put there by modutils when i ran update-modules. That is the only reference to rtl8139 though.
Sort of, /etc/modules.conf gets constructed by update-modules and should contain your line - options rtl8139 io=0xdc00 irq=10 (Aside, having looked at the rtl8139.o module, it doesn't take any of the above parameters and seems to autodetect any controllers - but above shouldn't do any harm). The /etc/modules file I mentioned just contains a list of modules to load at startup. So simply append "rtl8139" to end of the file. For example my copy is :- #=========== /etc/modules/ =========== # /etc/modules: kernel modules to load at boot time. # # This file should contain the names of kernel modules that are # to be loaded at boot time, one per line. Comments begin with # a #, and everything on the line after them are ignored. usb-uhci nfsd eepro100 # <== my network card ip_masq_ftp ip_masq_irc rtl8139 # <== your network card #=========== /etc/modules/ ===========
The only thing i think I may be missing is ONBOOT=YES.....not sure if it is ok juist to plonk that at the end of /etc/network/interfaces for iface eth0 or not?
I haven't heard of ONBOOT=YES before, but all you need are the correct IP address, netmask and gateway details in the /etc/network/interfaces file. You probably have all this entered correctly anyway. e.g. my copy is :- #======= /etc/network/interfaces ========= # The loopback interface iface lo inet loopback # The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian installation # (network, broadcast and gateway are optional) iface eth0 inet static address 10.0.1.2 netmask 255.255.0.0 broadcast 10.0.255.255 gateway 10.0.1.1 This file gets used at startup when the command "ifup -a" is executed to bring up all the network interfaces. To check all this out try the following commands # loads all the modules outlined in /etc/modules /etc/init.d/modutils # loads all networks using ifconfig, route, etc. ifup -a That should be it. I hope that helps. I can't explain solutions simply!!!! Cheers. David.