troubles whit lan drivers using Fedora Core 4

[Rolando]

Hi

1)> Does the standard via-rhine module not support this adapter?
I dont think so! I try to select via-rhine PCI option in th net config (the 
only present in the list) but the result was the same: absolutly nothing to 
do!

2 > It's possible that the driver doesn't support recent kernels. Does the
> documentation with it say which kernels it's supposed to support?

Here is a little abstract by ASUS doc
================
**  VIA Rhine Family Fast Ethernet Adapter
**  Linux Driver
**  v4.38  Nov. 2004
Introduction:
The instructions listed below are for linux driver installation. You must 
compile the source code to generate rhinefet.o(rhinefet.ko in 2.6.x kernel, 
please remember to replace rhinefet.o with rhinefet.ko in the following 
sentences if you are using 2.6.x kernel) and use insmod command to insert 
rhinefet.o as module.
Kernel Supported:
This driver supports linux kernel version 2.2.x, 2.4.x and 2.6.x now.
CPU Supported:
This driver supports x86 and AMD64 based linux system.
================

I used "uname -r" to get my kernel version and this is the message: 
2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp kernel: so I think my kernel seems to be supported.
My pc. has a ASUS motherboard P5V800-MX and Pentium 4, 3.2 GHz CPU.


3) >Do you have the kernel-devel package for your running kernel installed?
I think so, I hope so! I installed FC4 as workstation, so I suppose the 
kernel-devel package is installed...Sorry but I'm a beginner for Linux 
OS....


4) > What instructions have you followed (what have you done?)?
I tried following these (ASUS) instructions:
1) Create a temporary directory: mkdir /temp
DONE

2) Change to the temporary directory: cd /temp
DONE

3) Copy driver (rhinefet.tgz) from DOS disk, (mcopy below is one tool in 
mtools, if you didn't install mtools, you can type 'mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 
/mnt' and use 'cp /mnt/rhinefet.tgz /temp' command to copy the driver to the 
temporary directory):  mcopy a:rhinefet.tgz .
DONE

4) untar the archive file: tar xzvf rhinefet.tgz
        cd rhinefet
DONE

5) Compile the driver source files and it will generate rhinefet.o, and copy 
it to correct driver installation path (The installation directory is 
different in different kernel versions. In 2.4.x/2.6.x kernel, the path 
is /lib/modules/KERNEL_VERSION/kernel/drivers/net/, and in 2.2.x kernel, the 
path is /lib/modules/KERNEL_VERSION/net/, the KERNEL_VERSION (see above) 
means the kernel version of your Linux distribution. If you don't know your 
kernel version , please run 'uname -r' command in command line. The kernel 
version will look like '2.2.16', '2.4.2-2smp' etc.) :  make install

Impossible to do the suggested action! The compile fail! and good night to 
the players! and my net does't work yet!

Thanks for the help!
Rolando


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Howarth" <paul at city-fan.org>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 8:33 AM
Subject: Re: troubles whit lan drivers using Fedora Core 4


> On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 00:42 +0200, Rolando wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> for my new p.c. I bought a P5V800-MX ASUS motherboard whit
>> internal NIC, and I would like to use Fedora Core 4.
>> After FC4 installation (as workstation mode) the LAN does't work
>> because I'have to install the driver for NIC: the driver is in a ASUS
>> CD with others support softwares (audio driver, vga driver, etc.).
>> To do that ASUS releases a VIA Rhine Family Fast Ethernet Adapter for
>> Linux driver (the compressed file name is rhinefet.tgz) with
>> instructions for linux driver installation...
>>
>> ASUS writes:
>> 1): compile the source code to generate rhinefet.ko (I'm using a
>> 2.6.11-1.1369_FC4smp kernel)
>> 2) insert the compiled file as module using insmode command
>>
>> But when I try, following instructions, to "make" the files I just
>> obtain errors like "union <anonymous> has no member named 'ethernet'
>
> Does the standard via-rhine module not support this adapter?
>
> It's possible that the driver doesn't support recent kernels. Does the
> documentation with it say which kernels it's supposed to support?
>
> What instructions have you followed (what have you done?)? Do you have
> the kernel-devel package for your running kernel installed?
>
> Paul.
>
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