Re: how to load rtl8139.o on a machine with no gcc?

On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, David T-G wrote:

> I have a SuSE 8.1 (2.4.19-4GB) machine with a very minimal Linux build,
> and of the many things left off are gcc and friends.  I also, however,
> have my SuSE 8.1 laptop (also 2.4.19-4GB) with a full development build
> on it.  I hypothesize that SuSE detected the 8139 at installation time
> because modules.conf had an '8139too' alias for eth0 (yes, I read the
> rant :-) and it shows up in ifconfig but I get DEVICE BUSY when trying to
> give it an address.

Was there a related error?

> I tried pulling down the netdrivers-3.4.tgz file, extracting it, and
> building the rtl8139.o driver; that seemed to go smoothly.  Then I copied
> rtl8193.o and pci-scan.o and kern_compat.h over to the other box and
> tried an insmod; pci-scan went fine, but rtl8139 did not.

What was the error reported?

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