Quote Originally Posted by Sukrillux
As I stated above, I am very new to linux. I opened konsole and typed modprobe 8139cp and it said it couldn't locate module 8139cp. I then typed modprobe 8139too and it said nothing this time and brought up another prompt. What do I do next? How can I make knoppix use this module? With the ati video card, I had to edit the XF86Config-4 file. Do I need to edit another file for the network card? It is probably still using the driver from the old onboard NIC from the other box.
That means the module loaded without errors and should be in use. If you use lsmod in a console window you should output similar to this.
Code:
stephen@BashfulTux:~$ lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by    Tainted: P
nvidia               1968160  14 (autoclean)
apm                     9256   2 (autoclean)
via82cxxx_audio        19224   0
ac97_codec             12236   0 [via82cxxx_audio]
uart401                 6116   0 [via82cxxx_audio]
usb-uhci               21708   0 (unused)
usbcore                57504   1 [usb-uhci]
ne2k-pci                4448   0 (unused)
8390                    6192   0 [ne2k-pci]
ide-scsi                9008   0
agpgart                15464   0
8139too                11368   1
mii                     2416   0 [8139too]
crc32                   2848   0 [8390 8139too]
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With the network already setup before then it should be a matter of as root /etc/init.d/networking restart to restart the network with the already existing settings with the module loaded and getting your connection. Edit the file /etc/modules as root and put the 8139too on a line by itself and it will be loaded every time you boot.