>From me:
> Yeah I have access to the network via Windoze95, but installing the module
> package by disk would be a big pain.. Ill do it if I have to, but it looks
> like I won't have to since the author just wrote back about how to get the
> driver to work :).. Thanks anyhow
>From Jim:
Do you think you could forward me this info??
Thank you,
Jim
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Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 01:02:01 -0500 (EST)
From: Donald Becker <becker@cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov>
To: Illuminati Primus <vermont@gate.net>
Subject: Re: Intel EtherExpress Pro (making it work)
On Mon, 2 Dec 1996, Illuminati Primus wrote:
> So now, after putting eepro100.c in /usr/src/linux/drivers/net, and doing
> one little modification to the makefile in that directory (to compile and
> link the eepro100 object), I attempted to compile EEPro support into a
> 2.1.6 kernel on a coworker's machine... It seemed too easy.. and sure
You didn't add it to drivers/net/Space.c. An example of how to that is in
(complete with the EEPRO100 mods) is in
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.patch
That patch file probably won't with your kernel version, but is trivial to
apply by hand.
> since all I have at the moment is the basic Slackware 3.0 installation,
> inserting modules into a 2.1.6 kernel (without the EEPro driver inside of
> course) doesnt seem to work, returning an error code...
What was the problem?
Donald Becker becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
USRA-CESDIS, Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences.
Code 930.5, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD. 20771
301-286-0882 http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/people/becker/whoiam.html