>To make sure that my ethernet card has been recognized by the Linux RedHat 6.2 system, I try the following command: dmesg or ifconfig and I meet below messages, when trying to activate it by using modprobe rtl8139...(my ethernet card id DLINK DFE-538 TX)..
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>/etc/conf.modules is more than recent than /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/modules.dep
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>lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/net/rtl8139.o:init_module: Device or Resource busy
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>lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/net/rtl8139.o:insmod lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/net/rtl8139 failed
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>lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/net/rtl8139.o:insmod lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/net/rtl8139 failed
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>does any body can help me .. please?.. thanks in advance for any idea and or suggestion...
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>best regards
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>Winan

Looks like you added some shared library references to ld.conf and didn't run /sbin/ldconfig (see man pages on options) to rebuild the shared library cache OR, "...net/rtl8139.o:init_module: Device or Resource busy" suggests that the driver was loaded anyway but ran into a problem with the NIC card being "busy". Being "busy" usually means you have an IRQ conflict with some other device, usually the monitor or a sound card, or the device cannot reset itself properly and the PC needs to reboot to reset it. RH 6.2 is an older distro and the install/configure software doesn't do as good a job detecting devices and assigning IRQs as current Distros do. What IRQ is the NIC assigned to? Does 'cat /proc/interrupts' show some device already using that port? If so, you will have to assign the NIC to some other IRQ, perhaps IRQ 10, in /etc/modules.conf. There are examples in that file on how to do it.
JLK