[KLUG Members] installing new driver

[Buist Justin]

I wouldn't worry about it... the machine still turned off and came back on, didn't it? :)

Justin


> -----Original Message-----
> From: bill [mailto:bill@billtron.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 5:09 PM
> To: members@kalamazoolinux.org
> Subject: Re: [KLUG Members] installing new driver
> 
> 
> 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 their company wrote and provide you an outdated version of 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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