re: installing nvidia ethernet & audio; modversion.h
Hi all,
I'm looking for some help in installing drivers for the nvidia nforce
MCP network and audio chips. A few details first:
* woody is installed
* nvidia graphics driver successfully installed thanks to
http://www.linuks.mine.nu/conf/nvidia/nvidia_install
* kernel-headers installed at /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4,
with modversion.h located in the /include/linux sub-directory
This is my first time on debian, and getting this far has been trauma
for me, hence help would be appreciated.
Now, when I go to 'make' the NVIDIA_nforce-1.0-0248.tar.gz (downloaded
from www.nvidia.com for the network and audio) I get the
In file included from nvnet.h:20,
nvnet.c:21:
/usr/include/linux/module.h:21: linux/modversions.h: No such file or
directory
This seems to be a common occurrence (I don't understand why some
debian distributions have /usr/src/linux, and others have to make a new
'unclean' kernel in order to retain modversions.h).
When I installed nvidia-kernel then it seemed you just needed to export
a couple of variables:
export KSRC=/usr/src/kernel-headers-'blah'
export KVERS='blah'
However, these specific variables are not allowing the 'make' (I am
primitive). Changing the module.h file to locate modversions.h in its
present directory just lead to another error being revealed (and that I
have no understanding of). I will submit this second error. But first I
am hoping there is something an expert user can see (such as redefining
variables) that would make the whole process simpler - as in the
linuks.mine solution.
nvidia documentation just says:
tar -xvzf nforce.tgz; cd nforce; make; su; make install
Cheers in advance.
Rohan Sadler
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