[vortex] 3c905 irq & compile problems

[Donald Becker]

On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, pyr0man1c wrote:

> i recently purchased two new harddrives, and decided that i wanted to 
> install linux (debian dist) on the old one, an ibm deskstar 75gxp at 15gb. 
> When trying this, i encountered two different problems with the 3c59x
> driver:
> first when i try to use the binary driver included in debian, it fails to 
> access any other computer on the network. vortex-diag reports that no irq 
> has been assigned to the card, and /proc/pci holds no entry for irq 11, the 
> irq which the card uses in m$-windoze.

Read
   http://www.scyld.com/expert/irq-conflict.html

> the second problem occurs when i try to compile the driver on another 
> computer, using the same linux distro and kernel version. the make script 
> reports it can't find the file 'modversions.h' in the kernel source tree. 
> i mean what!?! i just downloaded the source from ftp.kernel.org?!? 

You likely forgot to install the kernel-headers package on the second
machine.

Downloading the source tree won't help you, unless you are planning on
building a new kernel.  You need the exact modversions.h file that was
built with your kernel.


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