Re: Tulip Driver Problems


Subject: Re: Tulip Driver Problems
From: Michael A. Peters (Moonglue@141.com )
Date: Thu Aug 31 2000 - 15:46:06 MDT


>Okay, I located the tulip driver for my ethernet card and here is where I
>now stand:
>
>When I attempt to compile the source code per the instructions at the bottom
>of the source file I receive a lot of warnings but it does produce a tulip.o
>file. If I try a insmod tulip.o right after compiling it I get resource is
>busy type message.
>
>From the information I've found at the scyld web site for Tulip I should run
>the install utility to move the .o file to the /lib/modules/2.2..../net
>folder so I can load the conf.modules file. If I do that and run modprobe
>eth1 it fails.
>
>Any suggestions at all?

Build the tulip driver in the kernel source itself.
Means compiling a kernel, but its better that way. Really.

If your kernel is only for you- you could even include it in the
kernel itself opposed to modular.

>
>Thanks

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