rhinefet.o? (getting VT6105 LAN on motherboard working with Debian stable 3.0r2)

From: Chris Evans (chris1_at_psyctc.org)
Date: 02/28/04

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    Hope that subject line is clear: I'm increasingly aware that the
    greatest poportion of good technical documentation on Debian is on
    list archives but that needs us all to be explicit...

    Has anyone got a VIA EPIA-CL mini-ITX motherboard working with its
    LAN on motherboard (LOM) VT6105 controller presenting one or both of
    the ethernet ports for use? I've tried and I'm failing and would
    hugely appreciate help. More technical detail below.

    TIA,

    Chris

    Motherboard is described at:
    http://www.viavpsd.com/product/epia_cl_spec.jsp?motherboardId=181
    says: chipset is - VIA CLE266 North Bridge and - VIA VT8235 South
    Bridge and: - VIA VT6105 LOM - VT6103 10/100 Base -T 10/100 Fast
    Ethernet Controller. CPU is detected as "Centaur VIA Nehemiah
    stepping 03"

    Installing the supplied rhine driver module at installation fails
    with an error message that I've not written down but it's clear it's
    not a compatible driver for the hardware.

    I have installed a Sitecom rtl 8139too based PCI card (with some
    difficulty as the 2.4.* kernel install I'd selected didn't seem to
    offer this: a change from 2.2.*?) and that's working fine now so not
    just about me misunderstanding module installs.

    I have dragged down the LAN driver on the VIA site:
    http://www.viavpsd.com/product/2/2/Audio_Driver_rev3.40b.zip
    unzipped it, gone to LINUX directory, unzipped etc. the rhinefet
    module source there and tried to compile it but here I'm going beyond
    my competence: the Makefile clearly expects the kernel source to be
    laid our rather differently from the way it actually is and I'm not
    beyond my sphere of competence.

    Has someone succeeded in compiling a working module I could just use
    or can someone talk me through more of the problems? Or point me
    elsewhere? Or suggest a more appropriate list or board on which to
    ask?

    PSYCTC: Psychotherapy, Psychology, Psychiatry, Counselling
       and Therapeutic Communities; practice, research,
       teaching and consultancy.
    Chris Evans & Jo-anne Carlyle
    http://psyctc.org/ Email: chris@psyctc.org 

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