Hi. Even with all my wonderful good luck lately, I still need to ask more
questions. I seem to be encountering a hurdle or two trying to get a NIC
driver installed - it's a DM9009 chip, the bar code sticker says
"ID_00015300A7BC" (which I haven't looked up yet - I'd have to dig
out the link to the FCC ID lookup web page); there seem to be DM9009
drivers all over the web. All with source code, a Makefile, and an
almost incomprehensible readme.txt. I'll try to be a little more
specific, but first let me say what the symptoms are. One, trying
to install any of the existing .o files by using modprobe or insmod,
I get errors like "can't find module."[0] and "look at dmesg"[1] and
"look at your logs"(this wasn't very helpful)[2]. I have absolutely
no idea where to go from here.
Of course, the ideal answer would be "Here's one Rich, compiled on
a Slack 9.1 box with a DM9009 in eth1. Here's how you install it:"
That "how you install it" is very daunting. I see stuff like "make
config," and "make dep," and so on. Where do I go to learn what these
things mean, so I can use them when they're needed and all that.
Or maybe if there's a way to do just part of the setup script,
where it asks if I want it to probe for a NIC. I say yes, it
finds eth0. Now how can I go into that script at that point and have
it probe for eth1? That's what I _really_ want to do. Is there a way?
Thanks,
Rich
[0] # what took place
root@bellerophon:/home/user# ls
DM9102_linux24x_v136.zip HiThere NIC-DM9009 Software etc
root@bellerophon:/home/user# cd NIC-DM9009
root@bellerophon:/home/user/NIC-DM9009# ls
LINUX
root@bellerophon:/home/user/NIC-DM9009# cd LINUX
root@bellerophon:/home/user/NIC-DM9009/LINUX# ls
DM9XS241.O DMFE2217.O DMFE_M61.O DMFE_R60.O Makefile dm9xs.o readme.txt
DM9XS242.O DMFE2218.O DMFE_M70.O DMFE_R62.O compile dmfe.c
DM9XS243.O DMFE_C23.O DMFE_M71.O DMFE_R70.O dm9xs.c dmfe.o
root@bellerophon:/home/user/NIC-DM9009/LINUX# cat compile
gcc -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/net/ipv4 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c dm9xs.c
root@bellerophon:/home/user/NIC-DM9009/LINUX# ./compile
In file included from dm9xs.c:94:
/usr/include/linux/malloc.h:4:2: warning: #warning linux/malloc.h is deprecated, use linux/slab.h instead.
root@bellerophon:/home/user/NIC-DM9009/LINUX# ls -l *.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20776 Mar 7 12:31 dm9xs.o
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20636 Mar 7 11:36 dmfe.o
root@bellerophon:/home/user/NIC-DM9009/LINUX# modprobe dm9xs.o
modprobe: Can't locate module dm9xs.o
root@bellerophon:/home/user/NIC-DM9009/LINUX# insmod dm9xs
Using /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/net/dmfe/dm9xs.o
Warning: loading /lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/net/dmfe/dm9xs.o will taint the kernel: no license
See
http://www.tux.org/lkml/#export-tainted for information about tainted modules
/lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/net/dmfe/dm9xs.o: init_module: No such device
/lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/net/dmfe/dm9xs.o: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
root@bellerophon:/home/user/NIC-DM9009/LINUX#
[1] dmesg | tail -15
PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 00:10.0
eth0: VIA VT6102 Rhine-II at 0xb800, 00:0c:76:8d:40:66, IRQ 11.
eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x786d advertising 05e1 Link 45e1.
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Intel PCIC probe: not found.
Databook TCIC-2 PCMCIA probe: not found.
ds: no socket drivers loaded!
eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII #1 link partner capability of 45e1.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
parport0: irq 7 detected
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
root@bellerophon:/home/user/NIC-DM9009/LINUX#
[2] tail -3 /var/log/messages (it's pretty obvious there's not a whole lot
here.)
Mar 7 12:19:13 bellerophon -- MARK --
Mar 7 12:24:22 bellerophon sshd[246]: Accepted password for user from 10.0.0.1
port 33584 ssh2
Mar 7 12:27:08 bellerophon sshd[262]: Accepted password for user from 10.254.239.20 port 1057 ssh2
root@bellerophon:/home/user/NIC-DM9009/LINUX#