Re: need help with compile of pcmcia card driver
On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 12:25:36 -0600
Paul E Condon <pecondon@peakpeak.com> wrote:
> I have an old laptop on which I have recently installed Woody. I have
> a new pcmcia NIC which I would like to use on said laptop to connect
> it to my LAN. The CD which comes with the NIC contains two files of
> software for Linux and instructions on how to compile and install. But
> the instructions are for some other distribution, not Debian.
>
> I know enough about Debian to have done some first steps:
> I've installed the kernel-source for the kernel version that I want,
> and I've compiled the kernel, just to make sure that the installed
> kernel is congruent with the source.
>
> But the instructions for compiling the driver can't work as written
> for Debian. The compile command is:
>
> gcc -DCARDBUS -DMODULE -D_KERNEL_ -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes \
> -O6 -c dfe690.c -o dfe690_cb.o \
> -I/usr/src/linux/pcmcia-cs-3.0.9/include/pcmcia/
Google for "dfe690-txd linux" and you'll get some references. The module you
need is "8139too".
You want to forget about the source code on that CD and use a later version.
The current version in Woody is 3.1.33; you can get it by apt-getting
pcmcia-source.
The Debian way to manage kernels and pcmcia is shown here:
http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html
You may not even need to roll your own; if you were using a Debian 2.4
kernel you may be able to just run modconf and insert the module.
Kevin
Kevin
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