compiling a module for a NIC Card...

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hello everyone.

Well, I wanted to ask some questions on compiling a module for a network card. It has been awhile since I have compiled a module, that I pretty much forgot.

Let me lay some foundation:

Running Red Hat 7.3
Card: Intel® PRO/1000 Family of Adapters, version 4.2.x
It is a Gig driver (e1000)

Ok. I followed the directions accordingly, but I cant seem to get it working the way I like.

Here is the directions:

tar zxf e1000-4.2.17.tar.gz
cd e1000-4.2.17/src
make install

For Linux 2.4.x systems: /lib/modules/[KERNEL_VERSION]/kernel/drivers/net/e1000.o

insmod e1000 (parameters)

ifconfig eth0 <ip address>

Everything seems to work. I can assign the IP address and ping it and it works.

however, when I go to make static entries for ifcfg-eth0, only problem is, its not there.

Sooo, I need to figure out a couple of things:

1) How to make sure the module loads upon boot
2) How to make sure my ifcfg-eth0 is in /etc/sysconfig/networking-scripts directory.

Anyone care to lend a hand?

I appreciate it.

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[pbharris]

hello,
my NIC has this in redhat 9 in the file
/etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0

the contents are:

DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=none
BROADCAST=192.168.0.255
IPADDR=192.168.0.4
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.0.0
ONBOOT=yes
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=no
TYPE=Ethernet

i would think yours would be very similar - then make sure a line is in /etc/modules.conf

alias eth0 e1000

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[glow=red,2,300]i would think yours would be very similar - then make sure a line is in /etc/modules.conf

alias eth0 e1000 [/glow]

Hmm. I am wondering if this is what I was missing.

Reason I think this is because I do not see ifcfg-eth0. I will need to double check though when I get back to work.

Also, I want to post a few additional things when I get back to work tomorrow in response to get some feedback. It is in regards to building the package as a RPM binary...I will post that when I get there tomorrow.

Thanks for your help. If anything goes wrong, I will be back.

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[pbharris]

ooo!

just forgot the wifey use rh7.3 - the script ifcfg-eth0 is in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts. its contents are:

DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=static
BROADCAST=192.168.0.255
IPADDR=192.168.0.3
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.0.0
ONBOOT=yes

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Ok. So I need to insmod e1000.o and then add:

alias eth0 e1000

to my /etc/modules.conf file, correct?

That should create a:

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts

If it doesnt, what do I do next?

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Hmm....very weird.

I added alias eth0 e1000 to my /etc/modules.conf file.

It is now coming back with a failed symbolic link error of some sort.

I will need to write down the exact error to be more specific.

Also, once I added alias eth0 e1000 to my /etc/modules.conf file, it added a ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-eth1 (two RJ-45 jacks in the back of the server) to the /etc/sysconfig/networking-scripts directory.

I dont recall compiling a module to be so difficult.

Any ideas?

Thanks

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Ok, here is the error.

I get this when I type in depmod:

depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.18.3/kernel/drivers/net/e1000.o

I'm a little clueless now. I can't even get the ethernet interface up now.

Anyone have a suggestion?

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Ok...I figured out the problem.

Basically, in a nutshell, the directions from Intel were pretty crappy.

After doing some working around, I found out that I needed to execute the following commands, in order to get the module to load correctly:

(This is after I untarred it and cd into the driver/src directory)

make clean
make
make install

Vwalla!

All set.

Just goes to show, go with what you know and forget what vendors recommend.

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