Re: via-rhine (or rhinefelt) and VT6105/VT6103 driver problems with Debian stable
I also needed to use the via-rhine driver with
Woody. I used the one from the Scyld site. There
are some minor things to fix but basically the
Scyld driver will solve your problems.
To compile a driver, you need to install the kernel
headers, using dselect for example. If you have the
latest Woody, the package to install is probably
kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4, but check your
kernel version by uname -a.
If you've installed the correct kernel headers
and still can't build the via-rhine driver,
post the detailed error message and I'll
try to help you. But I can reassure you that
basically this is going to work, because I've
done it.
Regards
Nick Jacobs
--- Chris Evans <chris1@psyctc.org> wrote:
> I hope I can get some help on this list as I've dug
> myself in a hole
> I think.
>
> I run debian stable (3.0r2) for a small home set up
> on ADSL that
> handles Email (closed opt in!) for some charities.
> I've used old
> hardware for a firewall and a server but the
> firewall is dying and I
> replaced it with a lovely, small, near silent box
> with a VIA EPIA
> mini-ITX motherboard which has two LAN ports
> controlled by a VT6105
> on board controller. If I stick a tried and tested
> realtek 8139
> clone PCI card in I can have the three ports I want
> ....
>
> Having always used old hardware and never hit
> compatibility problems
> I didn't realise I was asking for trouble. The
> 2.4.18 kernel is the
> latest in the Debian stable distro and I want to
> stick with Debian
> 'cos I know and trust it, and stable 'cos of the
> security updates,
> particularly important as this is firewall. Trouble
> is that I think
> the driver I need is a via-rhine one but the one
> that comes with that
> Debian kernel won't install (the rtl one does
> fine!). I've tried
> pulling the driver (rhinefet) off the VIA
> motherboard site and the
> via-rhine off the scyld site but I'm hopelessly out
> of my depth now
> as there are clearly old and vexatious issues about
> the ways that
> different distros store the headers and source, e.g.
> both VIA and
> scyld's Makefiles and source want a modversions.h
> file that clearly
> doesn't exist in Debian .. I've tried to work round
> that but modprobe
> on the via-rhine.o I finally produced gives all
> sorts of unresolved
> symbol complaints and I know I'm out of my league
> here.
>
> Can anyone help? The only alternative I can see
> looming is to spend
> about a third as much as I paid for the entire
> machine on a totally
> unnecessarily fast quadport Intel card (I need three
> ports and only
> have one free PCI slot as the machine is so small).
>
> Sod, sod, sod: I'll take hardware compatibility more
> seriously in
> future won't I?!
>
> TIA,
>
> Chris
>
> P.S. Copying to debian-user for archive record if
> nothing else,
> though similar question has twice drawn blank there
> beforePSYCTC:
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> and Therapeutic Communities; practice, research,
> teaching and consultancy.
> Chris Evans & Jo-anne Carlyle
> http://psyctc.org/ Email: chris@psyctc.org
>
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