newbie stuck on first Debian install
From: Oscar Dijkhoff (news_at_oehoeboeroe.nl)
Date: 03/31/05
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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 18:24:22 +0200
Hi all,
I'm a complete linux newbie so excuse me if my post seems dumb.
I'm trying to get Debian running on my Compaq Armada E500 laptop. I've
downloaded the first three of the woody CD's and installed the thing. All
went well except for the fact that my network card is not functioning.
I have a PCMCIA network card from Sweex (LAN PC-CARD 10/100 MBPS).
The PCMCIA controller seems to work fine: I got the familiar beep when I
installed it during the setup and also each time I boot the system. When I
execute 'cardctl ident' my PC-card is reported as Realtek Rtl8139, which I
guess is another indication that the PCMCIA controller is working fine.
I went to the Sweex webpages and downloaded a linux driver for the card.
It's a source code file called rtl8139.c and the install.txt file that goes
with it tells me to execute
"gcc -DCARBUS -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c
rtl8139.c -o realtek_cb.o -I/usr/src/linux/pcmcia-cs-3.0.9/include/". Where
I have to replace the pcmcia-cs-3.0.9 with the version that I use.
My first problem is that I have no idea where to find that pcmcia-include
directory on my system. I'm not able to find any source code whatsoever for
that matter and I don't really know how to get it on my machine. One thing I
tried was to install a package called pcmcia-source-3.1.33-6woody1_all.deb.
After I installed it there was a pcmcia-cs.tar.gz file in my /usr/src
directory. I unzipped it and untarred it and then went ahead and executed
the gcc command using first /usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs/include and later
/usr/src/modules/pcmcia-cs/include/linux in the -I option.
I get about twenty lines of messages from the gcc command almost all of
which are indications that in some function " rtl8139.c nnn: structure has
no member namd `xxx' " nnn being the line number and xxx either 'tbusy' or
'interrupt' or 'start'.
I have no further ideas as to how to get that network card running so would
be glad if someone could get me on the right track. Thanks!
Oscar
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