help, i need somebody help:)

deflin39 · 03-14-2001, 11:59 AM

ok, i've been trying to get a driver to work for my unix system(fa311)

i cannot seem to compile the driver inside of linux, i get strange errors in my asm/io.h and pgtable.h

any ideas?

by the way i'm trying to compile the NEW fa311.c for netgear and i'm running redhat7.0 2.2.16-22

[Edited by deflin39 on 03-14-2001 at 02:25 PM]

trickykid · 03-14-2001, 01:25 PM

That is the permissions level of use. To learn more try typing man chmod at the command line to lean how to change permission levels for different users and such.

deflin39 · 03-14-2001, 01:30 PM

i just updated my previous message. i learned some stuff about permissions of my files, so the previous post was kinda useless. i downloaded a pre-compiled version of fa311.o, but it isn't the new version that netgear released. so if anyone understands why i
get strange errors when compiling please write me

the errors are happening in the pgtable.h and io.h.
i do have the files there too

trickykid · 03-14-2001, 01:37 PM

What are you using to compile the driver? Don't use gcc, it won't work in RH 7.0.

deflin39 · 03-14-2001, 01:57 PM

i'm using kgcc

heres my call
kgcc -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O -m486 -c fa311.c -I/usr/src/linux/include

when i do this it seems like it is so close to compiling, but it just doens't make it through the io.h and pgtable.h

trickykid · 03-14-2001, 02:11 PM

Where did you get the driver from? Did you get it from netgear's site? I do know they have a post saying the driver doesn't work with RH 6.2, and it doesn't look like its been updated since the RH 7.0 release. That might mean that it wouldn't work with 7.0 either I would presume.

trickykid · 03-14-2001, 02:17 PM

Try this site, you can try the driver listed there for the FA311.
http://www.scyld.com/network/ethercard.html

deflin39 · 03-14-2001, 03:38 PM

yes,
i've been to that site before. unfortunealy i don't really understand some of it. i am truly a beginner and linux.

but all these problems are good for me, cause like dos, i had to fight with the os for a long time before mastering it.

deflin39 · 03-20-2001, 12:34 AM

i've installed the fa311.o like this
install -m 644 fa311.o /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/net

but when i go to linuxconf, use eth0 and then i try to look for fa311 in the kernel list, but it isn't there

so i type it in manually, and when i try to start up the network it just hangs on "bring up eth0"

no fail no nothing, just hangs

any ideas?