NetGear FA310TX Problems

Joshua Jackson jj@anti-exe.com
Wed Dec 2 00:27:11 1998


If that is, in fact, the case, then any clue as to why it's still not
working?  Whenever I boot up it gives me that default, 2 reason, problem
(kernal isn't compiled for it or modules aren't loaded or there is no
ethernet card.  I'll post the exact error soon.
JJ

George wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Joshua Jackson wrote:
>
> >Hey, I have a NetGear FA310TX NIC and I have 5 different versions of
> >tulip.c (slack version, NetGear version, and three from your web-site).
> >Everytime I try to compile them I get the same error.
> >Likewise, when I try to rebuild my kernel, the same thing happens...
> >
> >mother:/# gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/net/inet -Wall
> >-Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c tulip.c
> >/usr/include/asm/string.h: In function `__constant_memcpy':
> >In file included from /usr/include/linux/string.h:39,
> >                 from /usr/include/asm/termios.h:58,
> >                 from /usr/include/linux/termios.h:5,
> >                 from /usr/include/linux/tty.h:20,
> >                 from /usr/include/linux/sched.h:26,
> >                 from tulip.c:87:
> >/usr/include/asm/string.h:443: warning: control reaches end of non-void
> >function/usr/include/asm/string.h: In function
> >`__constant_c_and_count_memset':
> >/usr/include/asm/string.h:594: warning: control reaches end of non-void
> >function
> >mother:/#
>
> That's a warning, not an error.  Just ignore it because when you analyze
> the source code, the compiler is wrong anyway.
>
> select (x % 4) {
>   case 0:
>   case 1:
>   case 2:
>   case 3:
> }
>
> The 2.1.x series kernels change the '3' to 'default' to shut up GCC.
>
> -George Greer