[CentOS] 5.1 did not detect marvell e-net controller
Clyde E. Kunkel
oldfart2231 at cox.net
Fri Mar 28 20:43:05 UTC 2008
James Fidell wrote:
> Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
>> James Fidell wrote:
>>> John wrote:
>> <snip>
>>>
>>> There's a more recent driver available than the one on the Asus site.
>>> Google found it for me. Unfortunately I can't recall were I downloaded
>>> it from now.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately whilst it appears to work ok at 100Mb/s, I get a huge
>>> number of framing errors at 1000Mb/s. I've not tried enabling jumbo
>>> frames yet though.
>>>
>>
>> Th ASUS driver won't compile for me...just says compile error, look in
>> the log. The log says compile error.
>
> It wouldn't compile for me first time, either, because it wasn't looking
> in the right place for the kernel files.
>
> After installing kernel-devel and kernel-headers for the current kernel,
> I did something like:
>
> # ln -s kernels/`uname -r`-`uname -p` /usr/src/linux
>
> and that fixed it for me.
>
> I was using the latest drivers I could find, from here:
>
> http://www.marvell.com/drivers/driverDisplay.do?dId=153&pId=38
>
> James
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I got past the missing kernel header files. It said it was on the
compile step when it failed, so I believe I got the symlinks right.
Will try again (and again). Thanks for the response.
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Old Fart
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