Help building a driver for 3CR990B-LB-97
Rick Meyer
rick at workcity.ca
Tue Sep 14 08:59:00 UTC 2004
Thanks Fritz for taking a look at this. I'll ask 3Com to provide the source
for the 2.6 Kernel and see what they say.
Thanks again!
-----Original Message-----
From: Fritz Whittington [mailto:f.whittington at att.net]
Sent: Monday, September 13, 2004 9:49 PM
To: rick at workcity.ca
Subject: Re: Help building a driver for 3CR990B-LB-97
On or about 2004-09-13 13:00, Rick Meyer whipped out a trusty #2 pencil
and scribbled:
>Fritz,
>
> Thanks for taking a look at this for me. I have included the tar
>file and also some instructions from 3Com that I got off their website. I
>tried to compile it - however - just got a pile of errors.
>
>Thanks for the help!
>Rick
>
>
Well, there's no help for this one, I guess. I first put it on my
newer, faster machine and got a HUGE pile of errors. Thought I had it
figured out, because if you just install the kernel source but never
actually configure it and compile the kernel, there are a lot of include
files that aren't there. So I moved over to my older machine, on which
I had compiled the kernel before, and tried it there. That got me down
to only about one screenful of warnings and errors, but some are
showstoppers, especially a couple of assembly language IRQ files that
don't match up with what the driver source expects.
So, you can go back to the 2.4 kernel (FC1, I don't think you're going
to get FC2 to run on a 2.4 kernel, but it might be worth asking the
list). Or you could ask 3Com to fix it for the 2.6 kernel (which they
really SHOULD be doing, since 2.4 is semi-obsolete already). Or maybe
there's a generic 3Com driver that would make the board function as a
plain-vanilla NIC without using its super-duper features. Of course,
if the source is truly Open then perhaps some of the driver-writer gurus
could tweak it to work under 2.6. You may just have to put up with a
plain ol' regular NIC for a little while, if that's possible.
--
Fritz Whittington
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who
dream only by night. (Edgar Allan Poe, "Eleonora")
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