I just installed BeOS 5.0 Professional last week and love a lot of things about it. However, my NIC won't work. I went out to Circuit City and bought the D-Link because the chipset is Realtek 8139 and I saw that it's supported (http://www.betips.net/chunga.php?ID=513).I downloaded the drivers from Realtek in Win2000 (obviously the card works in Win2000). Then in BeOS, I copied the .tar from my NTFS partition over to the BFS partition and expanded it. The Realtek .tar expands into the '/boot/beos/system/add-ons/kernel/drivers/bin' and '/dev' directories (as is clearly explained at http://www.betips.net/chunga.php?ID=309). Still nothing.
So, from reading BeTip #309, I copied the 'rtl8139' driver from '/beos/system...' to the '/home/config...' equivalent, set the link in '/home/.../dev/net', and deleted the entries in '/beos/system.../bin' and '/dev'. Still nothing.
With the driver still in '/home/config...', I decided to take a look at the '/boot/home/config/settings/network' file (Thanks BeTip #102 - http://www.betips.net/chunga.php?ID=102). It had an entry of "ne2000" for DEVICELINK (I think from a shot-in-the-dark attempt at adding a jumpered card, even though I knew better). So, I changed the DEVICELINK to "rtl8139", the name of the Realtek driver. Still nothing.
I have tried several last-ditch variations on the above, like putting the full path of the rtl8139 file in for DEVICELINK. I have looked at the kernel debug info in the syslog, but didn't see anything that hinted at a NIC. I have clicked Restart Network after each step (the only time I've gotten any error messages is when I configured the ne2000 jumpered ISA) and rebooted several times, but nothing is giving me any results or feedback.
So, how do I tell BeOS to use the Realtek 8139 chipset driver for my D-Link NIC? Am I barking up the wrong tree so far?
Thanks,
Ryan Parrish
