Re: via-rhine (or rhinefelt) and VT6105/VT6103 driver problems with Debian stable

From: Steven Leach (stevenaleach_at_mac.com)
Date: 02/29/04

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To: Chris Evans <chris1@psyctc.org>

    Which Via board are you running?

    I have two set up, a CL6000 Dual Lan for my server and an M10000 as a
    little desktop cube.

    Debian 3.0r2 had no problem with the M10000 (single ethernet) using the
    via-rhine driver. On the dual lan, however, only eth0 was recognized.
    Upgraded to sid (possibly not necessary but I was planning on it
    anyway) and compiled a 2.6.0-test11 kernel and all was good (oddly
    enough what had been eth0 was now eth1 and the one that had been
    previously unrecognized was now eth0).

    Also, the current sarge/sid installers are unusable with the m10000
    (never tried it with the cl6000 though) but it is no problem since you
    can just dist-upgrade from Woody. The Woody installer works
    flawlessly.

    Good luck.

    On Feb 28, 2004, at 7:14 PM, Chris Evans wrote:

    > I hope I can get some help on this list as I've dug myself in a hole
    > I think.
    >
    > I run debian stable (3.0r2) for a small home set up on ADSL that
    > handles Email (closed opt in!) for some charities. I've used old
    > hardware for a firewall and a server but the firewall is dying and I
    > replaced it with a lovely, small, near silent box with a VIA EPIA
    > mini-ITX motherboard which has two LAN ports controlled by a VT6105
    > on board controller. If I stick a tried and tested realtek 8139
    > clone PCI card in I can have the three ports I want ....
    >
    > Having always used old hardware and never hit compatibility problems
    > I didn't realise I was asking for trouble. The 2.4.18 kernel is the
    > latest in the Debian stable distro and I want to stick with Debian
    > 'cos I know and trust it, and stable 'cos of the security updates,
    > particularly important as this is firewall. Trouble is that I think
    > the driver I need is a via-rhine one but the one that comes with that
    > Debian kernel won't install (the rtl one does fine!). I've tried
    > pulling the driver (rhinefet) off the VIA motherboard site and the
    > via-rhine off the scyld site but I'm hopelessly out of my depth now
    > as there are clearly old and vexatious issues about the ways that
    > different distros store the headers and source, e.g. both VIA and
    > scyld's Makefiles and source want a modversions.h file that clearly
    > doesn't exist in Debian .. I've tried to work round that but modprobe
    > on the via-rhine.o I finally produced gives all sorts of unresolved
    > symbol complaints and I know I'm out of my league here.
    >
    > Can anyone help? The only alternative I can see looming is to spend
    > about a third as much as I paid for the entire machine on a totally
    > unnecessarily fast quadport Intel card (I need three ports and only
    > have one free PCI slot as the machine is so small).
    >
    > Sod, sod, sod: I'll take hardware compatibility more seriously in
    > future won't I?!
    >
    > TIA,
    >
    > Chris
    >
    > P.S. Copying to debian-user for archive record if nothing else,
    > though similar question has twice drawn blank there beforePSYCTC:
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