Re: Newbie question: compiling specific 3com NIC drivers

[Pigeon <jah.pigeon@ukonline.co.uk>]

On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 10:32:39PM +0100, Edwin wrote:
> My apologies if this has been asked gazillion times, but i'm trying to 
> compile more specific drivers for my Debian Woody, 2.2.20 kernal router.
> I've got a 3c900B-TPO as eth0 ( connected to ADSL modem) and a 3c905B as 
> eth1 ( connected to 10/ 100 Mbit switched LAN). I'm getting an unusual 
> amount of errors on the 900B card, and I was wondering if the generic 
> 3c59x module supports my card well enough ( according to readme this new 
> driver should work better)? It nicely loads on initialisation during 
> boot of my router though. Hence my wish to compile the 3com drivers to 
> see if this solves the error problem.
> 
> I've downloaded these drivers from 3com website:
> http://support.3com.com/infodeli/tools/nic/linux/3c90x-102.tar.gz
> 
> But I'm getting this error when running the ./compile_UP
> 
> Darth-Vader:/usr/src/modules# ./compile_UP
> In file included from 3c90x.h:42,
>                  from 3c90x.c:1:
> /usr/include/linux/malloc.h:4: warning: #warning linux/malloc.h is 
> deprecated, use linux/slab.h instead.
> 
> Is this a major problem? I find the 3c90x.o file in the directory 
> regardless of the error, but when I run install again this is the output:
> 
> Darth-Vader:/usr/src/modules# ./install3c90x
> You are running the 2.2.20 version of kernel release 2.2.20...
> Found modules directory /lib/modules/2.2.20/net
> Copying the driver module into the modules directory.
> Updating module dependencies...
> depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.20/net/3c90x.o
> Update of module dependencies failed... perhaps you've updated your system?
> Installation of 3c90x driver module failed.
> 
> Darth-Vader:/usr/src/modules# depmod -a
> depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.2.20/net/3c90x.o
> 
> I'm running out of ideas. Can anybody help me with this problem?
> 
> Thanks for any help you can offer,
> 
> Edwin

Have you got kernel-headers-2.2.20 installed? I've had stuff like this
from broken kernel-headers installations.

Pigeon