I have an old laptop on which I have recently installed Woody. I have a new pcmcia NIC which I would like to use on said laptop to connect it to my LAN. The CD which comes with the NIC contains two files of software for Linux and instructions on how to compile and install. But the instructions are for some other distribution, not Debian.
I know enough about Debian to have done some first steps: I've installed the kernel-source for the kernel version that I want, and I've compiled the kernel, just to make sure that the installed kernel is congruent with the source. But the instructions for compiling the driver can't work as written for Debian. The compile command is: gcc -DCARDBUS -DMODULE -D_KERNEL_ -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes \ -O6 -c dfe690.c -o dfe690_cb.o \ -I/usr/src/linux/pcmcia-cs-3.0.9/include/pcmcia/ For Debian this path to the include stuff does not exist. I've found a path the seems to correspond to the above, but when I use it I get lots of undeclared identifier errors. Some details: the Debian path that I tried was: /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/include/pcmcia/ the pcmcia card is a D-Link DFE-690TXD, which uses the RTL8129 chip the directory pcmcia-cs-3.0.9 does not exist in the kernel source tree. Maybe the kernel source tree has been reorganized since D-Link wrote these instructions.(??) D-Link instructions say this about this directory: "The directory pcmcia-cs-3.0.9 stands for the card service version you use. Please change it to the version on your system in order to include proper .h file." I don't know what to make of this statement, since there is no directory with a plausible appearing different name at the top level of the source tree. I've also looked into using make-kpkg modules_image, but that appears to require that I have, or create, a Debian package of the module source according to some rules with which I am not familiar. Has someone already created such a package? Suggestions? TIA -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
