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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, James Miller wrote:

> On Fri, 11 Jun 2004, Sindi Keesan wrote:
> 
> > I could not find this module for 2.2.16 anywhere else but I did find
> > someone in a SuSE discussion group complaining about unresolved symbols.
> > Someone advised them to recompile a different way and it worked.  So I
> > need to learn to compile a kernel module. Would anyone on this list like
> > to help?
> 
> The only experience I have in compiling kernel modules has been as part of
> compiling the kernel itself.  And I haven't done much of that.  At a
> certain point during a kernel compile, you issue something like
> make_modules, which creates the modules for the kernel you're compiling.
> Never done it, or heard of it done (not that it necessarily sounds
> unreasonable or anything) separately.
> 
> James

Someone at the bbs said you need the kernel source - is this only that one 
kernel headers file that Steven said to install as part of the files 
needed for compiling?  He also said to look at the package for INSTALL but 
there is no package, only winbond-840.c

Winbond (www.winbond.com, or if you read Chinese www.winbond.com.tw) has a 
driver download page but only for Windows (or also for DOS, in the case of 
controller and I/O cards, of which we have many with winbond chips). 

www.scyld.com/network.html has a lot of useful information on ethernet 
cards and drivers.  This one has a serious bug which limits transmit list 
to a single packet.   I presume this means it is slower, but it is a 
100Mbit card so should still be faster than my non-buggy 10MBit cards.
The link to the linux driver for the winbond-840 is not currently working.
I was able to access another link and figured out that the drivers are all 
at:

ftp.scyld.com/pub/network

They have all or at least many of the drivers for the newer cards.  
Perhaps Steven can find the time to compile, for 2.2.16, the ones missing 
from SW71?  I would be willing to compare and find out which ones are 
missing.  SW71 has rtl8139, which is at scyld, for instance.  


There is supposed to be a way to use drivers for later modules, but the 
kernel has to be compiled to be capable of this.  Is ours?