I also needed to use the via-rhine driver with Woody. I used the one from the Scyld site. There are some minor things to fix but basically the Scyld driver will solve your problems.
To compile a driver, you need to install the kernel headers, using dselect for example. If you have the latest Woody, the package to install is probably kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4, but check your kernel version by uname -a. If you've installed the correct kernel headers and still can't build the via-rhine driver, post the detailed error message and I'll try to help you. But I can reassure you that basically this is going to work, because I've done it. Regards Nick Jacobs --- Chris Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hope I can get some help on this list as I've dug > myself in a hole > I think. > > I run debian stable (3.0r2) for a small home set up > on ADSL that > handles Email (closed opt in!) for some charities. > I've used old > hardware for a firewall and a server but the > firewall is dying and I > replaced it with a lovely, small, near silent box > with a VIA EPIA > mini-ITX motherboard which has two LAN ports > controlled by a VT6105 > on board controller. If I stick a tried and tested > realtek 8139 > clone PCI card in I can have the three ports I want > .... > > Having always used old hardware and never hit > compatibility problems > I didn't realise I was asking for trouble. The > 2.4.18 kernel is the > latest in the Debian stable distro and I want to > stick with Debian > 'cos I know and trust it, and stable 'cos of the > security updates, > particularly important as this is firewall. Trouble > is that I think > the driver I need is a via-rhine one but the one > that comes with that > Debian kernel won't install (the rtl one does > fine!). I've tried > pulling the driver (rhinefet) off the VIA > motherboard site and the > via-rhine off the scyld site but I'm hopelessly out > of my depth now > as there are clearly old and vexatious issues about > the ways that > different distros store the headers and source, e.g. > both VIA and > scyld's Makefiles and source want a modversions.h > file that clearly > doesn't exist in Debian .. I've tried to work round > that but modprobe > on the via-rhine.o I finally produced gives all > sorts of unresolved > symbol complaints and I know I'm out of my league > here. > > Can anyone help? The only alternative I can see > looming is to spend > about a third as much as I paid for the entire > machine on a totally > unnecessarily fast quadport Intel card (I need three > ports and only > have one free PCI slot as the machine is so small). > > Sod, sod, sod: I'll take hardware compatibility more > seriously in > future won't I?! > > TIA, > > Chris > > P.S. Copying to debian-user for archive record if > nothing else, > though similar question has twice drawn blank there > beforePSYCTC: > Psychotherapy, Psychology, Psychiatry, Counselling > and Therapeutic Communities; practice, research, > teaching and consultancy. > Chris Evans & Jo-anne Carlyle > http://psyctc.org/ Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
