Re: Newbie looking for some compaq help

On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Yonah Wolf wrote:

>  I am a bit new to the world of linux and I am not nearly an expert at
> the concept of Kernel compliation. I have RH 8.0 on a Compaq 1700 Laptop
> with the Conexant chip in it. I have looked at some of the threads on
> the net including Scyld's info and some of the pages on
> Linux-laptop.net, but I can't seem to find the right combination.

You likely need the Scyld driver release, rather than a modified driver,
to work with the Conexant chip.

> It seems that most of the info out there is relevant to the 2.2 kernel, and
> I am using the 2.4.

The Scyld drivers work with kernels from 2.0 through 2.4.*.

In many cases the drivers work with the 1.2.* kernels as well, although
the kernel compatibility defines may require tweaking.

> In addition, even though I have the Kernel headers
> in place, make never seems to work - so I can't make pci-scan.o or
> tulip.o.

The first error message from the Makefile should point to your problem

mkdir /tmp/netdrivers/
cd /tmp/netdrivers/
ncftpget ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/netdrivers.tgz
tar xfvz netdrivers.tgz
make
make install

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