Re: Fedora 18 basic functionality install question

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On 07.05.2013 12:16, soko.tica wrote:
> @poma, Bram Mertens
> 
> Many thanks for your replies.
> 
> The links were very helpful, unfortunately, I still haven't managed to get
> the driver working. It seems it doesn't work with f18 default kernel.
> Although bugzilla discussion says kernels prior to 3.7 should look for the
> driver elsewhere, I still wasn't able to find where that exactly was.
> 
> Attached is typescript with the session showing uname -r, and installation
> errors I've got.
> 
> You were already very helpful, but if you can easily find a link to the
> place where the driver for f18 kernel exist, please post it here.
> 
> Regards,
> 

3.6.10-4.fc18.x86_64

cd compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u/
patch -p1 < ../compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u-compat-3.7.h.patch

scripts/driver-select alx

make

find -name *.ko
./drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/alx.ko
./compat/compat.ko

make install

modprobe -v alx
insmod /lib/modules/3.6.10-4.fc18.x86_64/kernel/drivers/net/mdio.ko
insmod /lib/modules/3.6.10-4.fc18.x86_64/updates/compat/compat.ko
insmod
/lib/modules/3.6.10-4.fc18.x86_64/updates/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/alx.ko

dmesg:
 Compat-drivers backport release: compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u
 Backport based on linux-next.git next-20130304
 compat.git: linux-next.git
 Qualcomm Atheros(R) AR816x/AR817x PCI-E Ethernet Network Driver


To clean 'typescript':
cat typescript | perl -pe 's/\e([^\[\]]|\[.*?[a-zA-Z]|\].*?\a)//g' | col
-b > typescript.txt  ;)

When you use 'lspci', please use with '-nn' - "Show PCI vendor and
device codes as both numbers and names."

man 8 lspci


Sayonara Hayabusa ;)


poma




--- compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u/include/linux/compat-3.7.h.org	2013-05-07 19:16:00.782046851 +0200
+++ compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u/include/linux/compat-3.7.h	2013-05-07 19:17:47.784531220 +0200
@@ -109,6 +109,7 @@
 	memset(addr, 0x00, ETH_ALEN);
 }
 
+#if 0
 /**
  * nla_put_s8 - Add a s8 netlink attribute to a socket buffer
  * @skb: socket buffer to add attribute to
@@ -196,6 +197,7 @@
 
 	return tmp;
 }
+#endif
 
 #define PLATFORM_DEVID_NONE	(-1)
 #define PLATFORM_DEVID_AUTO	(-1)




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