[KLUG Members] installing new driver

[bill]

Took your advice and let Kudzu remove the old config and add the new one, telling it to migrate the old configuration to the new card.  The card seemed to work ok, but when shutting down to replace the cover on the box Linux reported that it could not shut down eth0:

Shutting down eth0 error: different MAC address.

Is this significant?  How do I fix it?

bill

Buist Justin wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: bill [mailto:bill@billtron.com]
> > Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 4:32 PM
> > To: members@kalamazoolinux.org
> > Subject: [KLUG Members] installing new driver
> >
> [snip]
> > On Linux, my understanding, if I may use that term so
> > loosely, is that the
> > drivers somehow "already exist" in some occult location
> > related to the OS.  I
> > was thinking of using that auto-detection program that occurs
> > during Linux boot
> > but...
>
> Yeah.. the manufactuer's will sometimes take the open-sourced driver that somebody completely unrelated to their company wrote and provide you an outdated version of the .c code on the floppy disk to make you think they care.  I actually saw one NIC maker go so far as to remove Donald Becker from the credits. Actually.. they just commented out the printk() w/ his name and replaced it with the company name.
>
> 99.9% of the time that disk is useless... throw it away.
>
> > The driver that came with the card requires that the driver
> > for linux (2.4
> > kernal) be compiled.  They even provide a batch script for
> > doing so, but, alas,
> > the batch script came back with:
> >
> > gcc: command not found
>
> Probably don't have any of the C development utilities installed.
>
> > So, my questions are:
> >
> > How can I find out if I have the latest version already?
> > This is RH 7.3.
>
> I would doubt that the driver has updated much since 7.3 came out.. if any.
>
> > How do I compile this driver without gcc?
>
> A hex editor and a couple of manuals, along with a -lot- of free time :)
>
> > Can I assume that the new-hardware-detection program that
> > runs during boot will
> > allow me to add this latest driver and that this detection
> > program is the proper
> > place to do so?
>
> try a 'modprobe 3x59x' as root from the command prompt.  If I'm not mistaken that's the module for your particular card.
>
> Justin
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