This card is not recognized and can therefore not be
installed:

Part of the problem seems to be that the rtl8139.c that
ships with RedHat is old (v0.99 as opposed to 1.4)

Please see following deja news article for more detailed
info:
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>In article <c1.2c.2PLxcW$104@rhino_house.ibm.net>,
>  john.thompson@ibm.net wrote:
>> I need help making the SMC 1211TX "EzCard" PCI ethernet
adaptor
>> in my new machine work.  Linux (RH v5.1, kernel 2.0.34)
flatly
>> refuses to recognize it.  Searching dejanews revealed
only one
>> marginally pertinent article with vague references to
making some
>> unspecified changes to Space.c and replacing ne.c with
rtl8139.c
>> I can do the later but have no idea what changes to make
in
>> Space.c.  Anybody here able to make this card work for
them?

>I saw the same article, and had the same problem with RH
v5.2 claiming the
>device was busy...
>
>However, I tried updating the rtl8139.c driver to version
1.4, and now the
>card works great (RH v5.2 ships with version 0.99B).
>
>The latest version is available at
>http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/rtl8139.c

I got the source, compiled it as a module but it still
doesn't
want to work.  Did you need to make any changes to Space.c
as the
original author apparently did?  Do you need some parameters
to
pass to the module when it loads?  I see in my
/var/log/messages
that the card is now apparently being recognized, but I
still get
these modprobe errors "can't locate module net-pf-5" and
netstat
-r doesn't show the eth0 interface.  I have this machine as
192.168.0.2 and my other machine as 192.168.0.1 and it seems
to