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Re: *****SPAM***** Re: sk98lin doesn't work



王晓林 wrote:

>Hi, Dave
>
>I tried tg3 (modprobe tg3). It's loaded without error, but it seems
>not work. I can't see the NIC with 'ifconfig -a'.
>
>Something else can I try?
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Xiaolin,

Ask for help from linux@syskonnect.de, as suggested in the kernel
documentation at
Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txt

Cheers,
Dave


>Thanks.
>
>Xiaolin
>
>On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 05:48:55PM -0800, David Liontooth wrote:
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>>王晓林 wrote:
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>>>Hi, Harri
>>>
>>>Thanks for helping.
>>>
>>>I got the latest sk98lin driver source from http://www.syskonnect.com/.
>>>I also installed the kernel-source-2.6.8.deb package, because installing
>>>the sk98lin driver needs to recompile the kernel.
>>>
>>>When running the sk98lin install.sh script (compiling the kernel), I got 
>>>      
>>>
>>an error:
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>>>+++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>scripts/mod/empty.c:1: error: code model `kernel' not supported in the
>>>32 bit mode
>>>+++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>
>>>It's most probably because my CPUs (Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.00GHz) are 
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>>>
>>64bits, but the compiler is default to -m32 instead of
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>>>-m64.
>>>
>>>Shall I change the /usr/src/linux/Makefile to use -m64? and how?
>>>
>>>Thanks!
>>>
>>>Xiaolin
>>>      
>>>
>>Xiaolin,
>>
>>I have a Tyan K8S with built-in Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5704 NiCs that 
>>came with a sk98lin driver on the CD. I discovered this driver is 
>>substantively the same as the tg3
>>driver that's in the kernel and have been using that instead. You might 
>>give it a try.
>>
>>Now, if you're not building your own kernel, or have difficulties 
>>compiling it for 64-bit,
>>this won't help you. I simply use
>>
>># make-kpkg -rev 1 kernel_image modules_image
>>
>>It creates a deb package (or more if you have external modules). To run, 
>>modprobe tg3.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>Dave
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