[linux-help] Re: Ethernet driver

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All "drivers" are part of the kernel.  And unless you just have a really old
kernel, you should probably start just by compiling the kernel with the
default tulp driver.  In menuconfig:

Network Device support
  Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)
    EISA, VLB, PCI and on board controllers
      DECchip Tulip (Dc21x4x) PCI support

Make sure you're running a modern kernel (i.e. 2.2.12 or newer, probably) to
make sure you have the latest support for the tulip clones.


On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 01:10:34AM -0500, Bruce Bales wrote:
> I have a Netgear FA310TX PCI NIC, which came with a floppy containing a tulip
> driver for Linux.  The last paragraph of the driver has a compile command.  
> The
> driver is a later version than the one in Mandrake 7.1 (which does not work 
> with
> this card).
> 
> When I issue the command, I get 50 to 100 screens of messages.  The last page 
> has
> warnings, incomplete types, storage size unknown, and other such nonsense.  
> Don't
> know what the first pages have on them.  It doesn't make a tulip.o.
> 
> I downloaded a later tulip.c from Don Becker's Skyld page, used the compile 
> command
> contained therein, and got the same result.
> 
> What am I doing wrong?  Am I supposed to put the tulip.c in a special place 
> before
> compiling?
> 
> 
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