Hi,

I've been setting up a Seawolf installation for a friend who has gotten sick
of XP and 98...    All has gone well except I can't get it to recognise his
NIC.

Some careful hunting turned up the fact that the DFE-530TX (not the +
version) uses the Via-Rhine I,II driver...  but when I tried this driver,
though the system tried a lot longer during boot to init eth0, it still was
unsuccessful.

The installation CD contains a 2.4.2-2 install, and I'm wondering if this is
where the problem lies...

I went to Donald Becker's driver site at http://www.scyld.com/network/ where
I found source-code for new Via-Rhine drivers, which compiled successfully,
but left me with a new question..  His new drivers separate the pci-scan
code from the main driver code.  If I use the newly compiled via-rhine.o and
pci-scan.o, will RH know to use the pci-scan code, since every other net
driver in the system incorporates its own pci-scanning code?

Puzzling over this at 2am, I decided to search further before messing with
things I don't really understand..  From D-Link's UK ftp site, I located
source for a driver which incorporated the pci-scan code into the driver, as
per 'normal'.  However, attempts to compile this were unsuccessful.

I ran the included makefile, which issues the following command...

gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -I/usr/source/linux/
include -c via-rhine.c

This results in the following output:

In file included from via-rhine.h:16,
                         from via-rhine.c:26:
/usr/include/linux/modversions.h:1:2: #error Modules should never use
kernel-headers system header
/usr/include/linux/modversions.h:1:2: #error but headers from an appropriate
kernel-source
make: *** [via-rhine.o] Error 1


I am a total newbie in this area, and am uncertain of how to proceed from
here.  Can anybody help, or even throw some light on the subject?


Garryck



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