[tulip] Linksys LNE100TX Driver Problems

Jon Schewe jpschewe@eggplant.mtu.net
08 Aug 2000 07:54:15 -0500


Do you have the  kernel headers installed?  Look in /usr/src/linux
and see if there's anything there.  You'll needa kernel-headers rpm for that.


"Brian Hanks" <bricc@gte.net> writes:
> 
> I'm relatively new to Linux, so I really appreciate any help that you
> may have to offer.
> Anyway, I am running RedHat 6.2 and I cannot seem to get my Linksys
> LNE100TX NIC to work.  When attempting to use the tulip.c driver that
> was standard with RH6.2, I get a "device is busy" message.  So, I am
> attempting to upgrade to the latest version of tulip.c.  I've attempted
> use both the RPM format as well as the stand alone module, but I get
> errors on all sides.
> When attempting to use the RPM, I get to the rpm -bb command and it
> fails with the following message:
> "make: *** no rule to make target `/usr/src/linux/drivers/net/8390.h' ,
> needed by `ne2k-pci.o'. Stop.
> Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.xxxxx"
> When attempting to compile tulip.c alone I get all kinds of warning
> messages, but no tulip.o file.
> Thanks for your help,
> Brian Hanks
> 

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