[realtek] Issue when load RTL8139 on 2.4.3

[Donald Becker]

On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Peter Lambrechtsen wrote:

> I have been trying to load the RealTek driver under Novell Zenworks
> Imaging 3.2.  This is running a 2.4.3 kernel, I have complied the
> drivers however I always get the error message in the DMESG of: 
> 
> 
> rtl8139.c:v1.15 8/1/2001 Donald Becker, becker@scyld.com.
>  http://www.scyld.com/network/rtl8139.html
> Failed to map PCI address 0xd800 for device 'RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet'.

That's a very unusual error.
Verify that you don't have some other rtl8139 driver (e.g. 8139too) loaded.
Check in /proc/ioports for another device registered at 0xd800.

If there is no obvious conflict, try compiling the driver rtl8139.c with
the additional option
  -DUSE_MEM_OPS

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