Re: [Sheflug] Network card installation

["Alex Hudson" <nospam [at] alexhudson.com>]

> > there to find /net/inet
> > net directory exist but inet dosen't what do i do now? I ve tried
creating the
> > directory and slapping the headers in but it won't compile
> > a lot of errors come up.
>
> This may be a stupid question, but is it really necessary to use these
> third party drivers?
> There is a drivers/net/tulip dir in the 2.4.0 kernel tree.

There has been a tulip driver since kernel 1.2, I think. There have been a
lot of tulip drivers, IIRC, and a lot of them either suck / don't work with
some cards / etc. LinkSys have been good about getting their cards working
in the past, and certainly if a manufacturer was offering a driver I'd use
that in preference to any kernel version, at least initially. Given that
this driver requires "pci-scan.h" and "kern_compat.h" points to it, at least
originally, being a work of Donald Becker, so it's probably a reasonable
quality driver. Getting anything from 2.4.0 working is probably harder than
getting the intended version working.

Cheers,

Alex.

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