Hello,
I'm trying to install CentOS 5.2 on an HP 6730s notebook.
All's going well except for one little item -- the networking. Never thought I'd have trouble with an Ethernet adapter, so I didn't even check before buying this machine; it was cheap.
The adapter is a Marvell Yukon 88E8042 PCI-E Fast Ethernet controller. I can't find a Linux driver for it except one that appears to require me to recompile a custom kernel. I find it on the Marvell website:
http://www.marvell.com/drivers/search.do
It looks like I'll have to recompile the kernel to get this installed. Having read the warnings on the CentOS Wiki, I figured I should ask before building my own kernel for the first time.
Do I have other options?
Thanks!
Kurt Hansen khansen@charityweb.net
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 9:49 PM, Joseph L. Casale JCasale@activenetwerx.com wrote:
If the 88E8042 shares the same driver as 88E8056, check out this forum thread:
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?viewmode=flat&topic_id...
Scroll down to note #5 and get the kABI tracking kmod-sk98lin package. There will be no need to rebuild the driver for each kernel update.
Akemi
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 7:05 AM, Akemi Yagi amyagi@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, the driver sk98lin works fine for me, under 5.2
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Vnpenguin vnpenguin@vnoss.org wrote:
Thank you for the note. Then, the OP can go directly to:
http://centos.toracat.org/ajb/sk98lin/
and install the driver from there (thanks to Alan for building them). These kmods are not kernel version specific, so will survive kernel updates.
Akemi / toracat
Akemi Yagi wrote:
It's mentioned in this thread, too:
http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=17422&forum=3...
Akemi, looks like you answered this question a bunch within the past 24 hours! :-) Thank you!
Special thanks to Alan Bartlett for building this kmod! It works for me, including over a kernel upgrade.
Thanks!
Kurt
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 5:39 AM, Kurt Hansen khansen@charityweb.net wrote:
Akemi Yagi wrote:
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:15 AM, Vnpenguin vnpenguin@vnoss.org wrote:
Yes, Alan wanted to reach as many users as we can , so I helped a bit with spreading the words. I looked at my web log and was astonished by the number of visitors and downloads.
Thanks again for reporting back with your success note.
Akemi / toracat
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 08:12:01AM -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote:
Does this module work with CentOS 4.7? The binary RPM appears to put it into a different tree /lib/modules/2.6.18-92.el5 /lib/modules/2.6.18-92.el5/extra /lib/modules/2.6.18-92.el5/extra/sk98lin /lib/modules/2.6.18-92.el5/extra/sk98lin/sk98lin.ko
The source RPM fails with dependency issues; it looks for kernel-devel-i386 but the package is just kernel-devel
[root]/usr/src/redhat/SPECS% rpmbuild sk98lin-kmod.spec error: Failed build dependencies: kernel-devel-i386 = 2.6.9-78.0.8.EL is needed by sk98lin-10.70.1.3-1.i386
[root]/usr/src/redhat/SPECS % rpm -qa | grep kernel-devel kernel-devel-2.6.9-78.0.8.EL
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Stephen Harris lists@spuddy.org wrote:
No, the binary is for CentOS-5 only. I mentioned this somewhere but if you did not see it, I apologize for not making it clear in this thread.
Alan is now working on providing the CentOS-4 version of the same driver. Give him (us) a bit of time. I will make an announcement when it is finally ready.
Alan, I think we need to create subdirectories like SRPMS, i386 and x86_64 on the server.
Akemi
On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 9:00 AM, Akemi Yagi amyagi@gmail.com wrote:
It's ready for you to grab:
http://centos.toracat.org/ajb/CentOS-4/sk98lin/
Thanks, Alan.
Akemi
HI,
Joseph L. Casale wrote:
Thanks!
I had tried that and got an error when the install.sh tried to test the module it built. It then gave me instructions for doing it manually; those instructions were for compiling the driver into the kernel, I believe.
Maybe the module was fine and just the testing procedure was off.
In any case, the sk98lin mentioned later in this thread worked.
Take care,
Kurt
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