ASUS P5GD2 Marvell Yukon 88E8053 gigabit ethernet not detected/loaded
Scot L. Harris
webid at cfl.rr.com
Mon Feb 14 21:21:07 UTC 2005
On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 16:06, Jeff Vian wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 13:37 -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote:
> >
> > I thought I could get by with just the header files but it seemed like
> > it really did need the kernal sources. I pulled those down and loaded
> > per the release notes.
> >
> > Had to link the directory to /usr/src/linux and then the install script
> > ran. This did install the driver and I was able to configure it and get
> > it working.
> >
>
> It probably needed the source because of hard coded paths to the headers
> in the Makefile or configure.
>
> Try checking the paths next time because a simple change to the header
> path will often fix that for you.
>
> Headers on my machine are in /usr/modules/<kernel version>/build and I
> build driver modules all the time.
Just looked, I don't have a /usr/modules directory. Are the include
files part of another package?
Explains why I could not find them.
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Scot L. Harris
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