I'm not sure, but when I've had to grab drivers from his page, I have grabbed the source and plugged the *.c and *.h files to replace ones already present in my current kernel version. They compiled just fine for me. Be sure, of course, to backup the files you're replacing, just in case. Linksys and Netgear are 2 cards I have had little problem with in previous and current kernel versions. DLink DE220 (ISA card) and the 3Com 3c905B-TX are others that work well and seem to have few driver issues. For my home system (which uses a Netgear FA311), I actually had to get the driver from the Netgear website for RedHat 7.0. RH7.1 I used the stock driver (either tulip or natsemi, I don't remember). ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Alford" <ronwalf@wam.umd.edu> To: "Jim Roland" <jroland@roland.net> Cc: <linux-net@vger.kernel.org> Sent: Saturday, July 07, 2001 8:51 AM Subject: Re: Linksys card > On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Jim Roland wrote: > > > Check out http://www.scyld.com/network/ this will contain Donald Becker's > > current drivers for NICs under Linux (found via google). Any references in > > search engines to downloading NIC drivers from NASA will either be broken or > > old. Mr. Becker doesn't work fulltime for NASA anymore, but is still one of > > those NASA geeks that all of us wish we could have been. :) > > > > Yes, thanks. I had already looked at those pages though. The new NatSemi > chipsets don't seem to be fully up and running yet. > You can find Becker's page for this driver at > http://www.scyld.com/network/ethercard.html > > >From reading the archives, it looks like many of the drivers on Mr > Becker's page are for his own version of the kernel? This would explain > my lack of luck trying to shove his ns820.c into a stock 2.4.2 kernel. > And just to show you how ignorant I am of kernel programming, I've > attached my childish attempt to insert a square peg in a round hole. > > > > -- > Ron Alford, KB0NUV > http://volus.net/~ronwalf > ----------------------------------------------------- > System hosed. Would you like to continue? [Y]: > > > - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
