[tulip] Troubles compiling Tulip under Mandrake 7.2

Matthew Johnson matthew@psychohorse.com
Sat, 17 Feb 2001 00:47:33 -0800


Hello Adam,

  Welcome to Linux, I know this may sound silly right now, but Linux is pretty
easy, just different!

Anyway, you do not need to use those drivers that came with your card. Its very
likely they are old. Most distrobutions will come with those modules already on
the system (although not always as new as they should be) and all you need to
do is either run there setup utility, which I do not know what it is, or rebuild
the rpm and install that). This link has the source rpm
http://www.scyld.com/network/updates.html You will notice a link to
ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/netdriver-2.1.src.rpm.

Having said that you should not need it! Unless you want to update the modules.
Is it drakconf on Mandrake that takes you through the steps? There are a number
of steps to manually setup networking...If you are new you probably just want
to get up running for now, then explore later...

Let me know if this helps,

Matt

On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 23:17:01 Adam J. Kleifield wrote:
> I have a Linksys LNE100TX (EtherFast 10/100 LAN card) and have been having a
lot of trouble compiling tulip.c and getting the card to work. I am very new to
Linux and am still learning the basics, so I thought I could get some help
through this mailing list.
> 
> First I extracted the netdrivers.tgz from the Linksys drivers disk to a
temprorary directory (/root/netdrivers, as recommended by the .txt file on the
floppy). I then replaced the tulip.c file that was extracted with the newer downloaded
version. I then typed "make" while in the /root/netdrivers as instructed in the
readme, it appeared to be compiling all of the files but then stopped after
around 8 files with:
> 
> *** No rule to make target '/usr/src/linux/drivers/net/8390.h', needed by
'ne2k-pci.o". Stop. ***
> 
> Then I just tried compiling tulip.c with this command:
> 
> gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c tulip.c `[ -f
/usr/include/linus/modversions.h ] && echo -DMODVERSIONS`
> 
> Suddenly a huge list of errors started scrolling by very fast, which I could
recognize as compiler errors, most of them being "undefined references" in
certain .h files. Anyway, I'm going crazy trying to figure this out, I think I can
handle the rest of the driver installation if I'm just able to make the tulip.o
file, but I have been unsuccesful thus far. And being quite new to Linux doesn't
make it any easier. If anyone can help a poor newbie out, I'd be extremely
grateful :)
> 
> -Adam
> adam@kleifield.com

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> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have a Linksys LNE100TX (EtherFast 10/100 LAN

> card) and have been having a lot of trouble compiling tulip.c and getting the

> card to work. I am very new to Linux and am still learning the basics, so I 
> thought I could get some help through this mailing list.</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>First I extracted the netdrivers.tgz from the 
> Linksys drivers disk&nbsp;to a temprorary directory (/root/netdrivers, as 
> recommended by the .txt file on the floppy). I then replaced the tulip.c file

> that was extracted with the newer downloaded version. I then typed "make"
while 
> in the /root/netdrivers as instructed in the readme, it appeared to be
compiling 
> all of the files but then stopped after around 8 files with:</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>*** No rule to make target 
> '/usr/src/linux/drivers/net/8390.h', needed by 'ne2k-pci.o". Stop. 
> ***</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Then I just tried compiling tulip.c with this 
> command:</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes 
> -O6 -c tulip.c `[ -f /usr/include/linus/modversions.h ] &amp;&amp; echo 
> -DMODVERSIONS`</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Suddenly a huge list of errors started scrolling
by 
> very fast, which I could recognize as compiler errors, most of them being 
> "undefined references" in certain .h files. Anyway, I'm going crazy trying to

> figure this out, I think I can handle the rest of the&nbsp;driver
installation 
> if I'm just able to make the tulip.o file, but I have been
unsuccesful&nbsp;thus 
> far.&nbsp;And being quite new to Linux doesn't make it any easier. If anyone
can 
> help a poor newbie out, I'd be extremely grateful :)</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-Adam</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A 
> href="mailto:adam@kleifield.com">adam@kleifield.com</A></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>