Network card driver

I'm new to Linux and have just installed debian 3.0r2

My network card is RTL8139. The drivers documentation says I have to
compile the driver from source code rtl8139.c

To do this I require the kernel source 2.2.20 which I can't find by
searching the Debian site. Where is the source available from?

I'm trained as a programmer and have programmed in C. The source code for
the driver contains lines like #include linux/versions.h

Where do I put the driver source code files to make sure that gcc can
find the included header files?

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On 2004-02-18, Mainlander <*@*.*> wrote:
> I'm new to Linux and have just installed debian 3.0r2
>
> My network card is RTL8139. The drivers documentation says I have to
> compile the driver from source code rtl8139.c

Huh? No, you don't need to. Try "modprobe rtl8139". If this doesn't work
for you, you can compile your Kernel yourself (kernel-sources can by
fetched by using "apt-get install" followed by the package you want to
install. So you need to know the package-name. Try apt-cache search
kernel-source and you'll get a list like this:

[...]
kernel-source-2.2.25 - Linux kernel source for version 2.2.25
kernel-source-2.4.19 - Linux kernel source for version 2.4.19
kernel-source-2.4.19-hppa - Linux kernel source for version 2.4.19 on HPPA
kernel-source-2.4.20 - Linux kernel source for version 2.4.20 with Debian patches
kernel-source-2.4.21 - Linux kernel source for version 2.4.21 with Debian patches
kernel-source-2.4.22 - Linux kernel source for version 2.4.22 with Debian patches
kernel-source-2.4.23 - Linux kernel source for version 2.4.23 with Debian patches
kernel-source-2.4.24 - Linux kernel source for version 2.4.24 with Debian patches
kernel-source-2.6.0 - Linux kernel source for version 2.6.0 with Debian patches
kernel-source-2.6.0-test11 - Linux kernel source for version 2.6.0-test11 with Debian patches
kernel-source-2.6.0-test9 - Linux kernel source for version 2.6.0-test9 with Debian patches
[...]

normally the kernel-source resists in /usr/src/linux, after unpacking
the kernel-source in /usr/src there will normally be a link from
/usr/src/linux to /usr/src/linux-2.4.xx (which should be the version,
you installed/downloaded). Try reading the Documentation you can find in
/usr/src/linux/Documentation and especially for a list, what to do, to
compile yourself a kernel, you should read /usr/src/linux/README


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