Re: Insmod driver.o installed now what?!?!
From: Ulf Doz (maril_manson_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/28/04
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Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 09:19:30 +0100
bruce wrote:
> Sorry for the cross posting. Linux newbie, here. I am trying to phase
> windows out of life by the end of this year, but at this rate, it may
> take three.
>
> For the past two weeks I have been trying to get online with my Redhat
> 7.2 distro and it does not seem to work. I was able to get online six
> months ago until I had to replace my old smc NIC which had a crack in
> its board.
> Being cheap, I purchased a new NIC (Asound Myson mtd80x).
> I had no problem installing the driver for my Windows partitions, but
> Linux has been a hair pulling experiance. I have follwed the install
> directions that came with the Asound drivers for Linux, but I'm not
> sure where to go after I ping the localhost ip. I cannot ping outside
> sites and I'm not sure if I'm binding the card correctly.
>
> The instructions are as follows:
>
> Myson MTD80X Based Fast Ethernet Card
> Linux 2.4.X Driver Installation Guide
>
> -----------------------
> Installation Procedure
> -----------------------
> 1. Copy the compress file mtd80x-linux-2.4.x.tgz to /tmp directory,
> mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> cp /mnt/floppy/linux-2.4.x/mtd80x-linux-2.4.x.tgz /tmp
> 2. Uncompress the file
>
> cd /tmp
> tar -zxvf mtd80x-linux-2.4.x.tgz
>
> 3. Make network adapter driver modules
>
> touch *
Does anyone know, what the above line is good for?
> make clean
> make
>
> 4. Insert network adapter driver modules
>
> insmod pci-scan.o
> insmod mtd80x.o
You should copy the modules to
/lib/modules/<kernel-version>/kernel/drivers/net
Then run "depmod -ae" (hope, that there are no unresolved symbols) and
restart the the network by executing "service network restart"
> 5. Bind your card to an IP address
>
> ifconfig eth0 {IPADDR} netmask {NETMASK}
> 6. Now, you should be able to ping local network.
> *Every time you reboot the system, you must execute step 4 and step 5
> again to bind your card.
> Compability:
> This driver is tested with the Distribution.
>
> RedHat 7.1/7.2/7.3
>
> After I "bind" the card and ping the 127.0.0.1, I'm still not able to
> get on the Internet. I know I'm missing a step, but not sure where to
> go. I wanted try to see if I could find my mtd80.o driver by using the
> network config gui interface in KDE, but no dice. The driver doesn't
> even show up. Can anyone help.
>
> My system:
>
> Multi-boot
> W2k Pro
> W2k Server
> Redhat 7.2 2.4.7-10
>
> NIC: Myson Asound mtd80x
>
> I do admit, this experiance has taught me alot about linux as far as
> using commands and such so I really can't complain. I just feel like
> I'm hitting a wall.
> Thanks in advance.
HTH
-- Robert...
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