Has anyone had any luck getting this to work? The kernel provide skge, sky2 and sk98lin modules all fail to load.
I was able to download the latest version from the syskonnect.de site, and with some hacking/klduging of their install script managed to compile the module in there (a newer version of sk98lin, it seems) which recognised the card... but this isn't really sustainable 'cos new kernels will cause problems.
Any ideas?
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 13:44 -0500, Stephen Harris wrote:
Has anyone had any luck getting this to work? The kernel provide skge, sky2 and sk98lin modules all fail to load.
I was able to download the latest version from the syskonnect.de site, and with some hacking/klduging of their install script managed to compile the module in there (a newer version of sk98lin, it seems) which recognised the card... but this isn't really sustainable 'cos new kernels will cause problems.
Um... I've been using DGE-530T (PCI-Express) cards in a couple of boxes running CentOS for a couple of years now... I'm using the sk98lin module from the atrpms.net rpm... http://atrpms.net/dist/el5/sk98lin/
-I
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Ian Forde ian@duckland.org wrote:
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 13:44 -0500, Stephen Harris wrote:
Has anyone had any luck getting this to work? The kernel provide skge, sky2 and sk98lin modules all fail to load.
I was able to download the latest version from the syskonnect.de site, and with some hacking/klduging of their install script managed to compile the module in there (a newer version of sk98lin, it seems) which recognised the card... but this isn't really sustainable 'cos new kernels will cause problems.
Um... I've been using DGE-530T (PCI-Express) cards in a couple of boxes running CentOS for a couple of years now... I'm using the sk98lin module from the atrpms.net rpm... http://atrpms.net/dist/el5/sk98lin/
I was just about to suggest the same thing when I saw this reply. The OP is running CentOS-4, so this link may be relevant:
http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/sk98lin/
If their driver works, set up the atrpms repository on the system so that the driver update takes place automatically.
Akemi
On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 12:57:05PM -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote:
I was just about to suggest the same thing when I saw this reply. The OP is running CentOS-4, so this link may be relevant:
http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/sk98lin/
If their driver works, set up the atrpms repository on the system so that the driver update takes place automatically.
Won't I have an issue, though, were the new kernel might be available before the ATrpms module is updated? I was hoping for some sort of dkms solution.
Otherwise I can always just recompile the module myself if there's no automatic version solution available.
On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 16:04 -0500, Stephen Harris wrote:
On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 12:57:05PM -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote:
I was just about to suggest the same thing when I saw this reply. The OP is running CentOS-4, so this link may be relevant:
http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/sk98lin/
If their driver works, set up the atrpms repository on the system so that the driver update takes place automatically.
Won't I have an issue, though, were the new kernel might be available before the ATrpms module is updated? I was hoping for some sort of dkms solution.
Yep - that would be an issue... But since I also use quite a few other modules from atrpms, I always check first...
Otherwise I can always just recompile the module myself if there's no automatic version solution available.
You could, but I prefer the simplicity of rpms... this way I don't have to do my own QA..
-I
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Stephen Harris lists@spuddy.org wrote:
On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 12:57:05PM -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote:
I was just about to suggest the same thing when I saw this reply. The OP is running CentOS-4, so this link may be relevant:
http://atrpms.net/dist/el4/sk98lin/
If their driver works, set up the atrpms repository on the system so that the driver update takes place automatically.
Won't I have an issue, though, were the new kernel might be available before the ATrpms module is updated? I was hoping for some sort of dkms solution.
Otherwise I can always just recompile the module myself if there's no automatic version solution available.
Right, the solution will then be either dkms or kernel version-independent kmod. While CentOS does not provide either, the dkms version might become available if you ask dag :-D Try the rpmforge mailing list. If you'd rather go for the kmod way, Alan Bartlett has been offering kABI-tracking kmods for several NIC drivers here:
http://centos.toracat.org/ajb/
I'm quite certain he will be happy to build one for sk98lin.
Akemi / toracat
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Akemi Yagi amyagi@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Stephen Harris lists@spuddy.org wrote:
On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 12:57:05PM -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote:
Won't I have an issue, though, were the new kernel might be available before the ATrpms module is updated? I was hoping for some sort of dkms solution.
Otherwise I can always just recompile the module myself if there's no automatic version solution available.
Right, the solution will then be either dkms or kernel version-independent kmod. While CentOS does not provide either, the dkms version might become available if you ask dag :-D Try the rpmforge mailing list. If you'd rather go for the kmod way, Alan Bartlett has been offering kABI-tracking kmods for several NIC drivers here:
Just wanted to make a note that Alan did build the kmod-sk98lin package and made it available at the above URL. However the binary is for CentOS-5. If you need one for CentOS-4, you may need to rebuild it from the srpm available from the same directory.
Akemi
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 1:13 PM, Akemi Yagi amyagi@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Stephen Harris lists@spuddy.org wrote:
On Sun, Dec 07, 2008 at 12:57:05PM -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote:
Won't I have an issue, though, were the new kernel might be available before the ATrpms module is updated? I was hoping for some sort of dkms solution.
Otherwise I can always just recompile the module myself if there's no automatic version solution available.
Right, the solution will then be either dkms or kernel version-independent kmod. While CentOS does not provide either, the dkms version might become available if you ask dag :-D Try the rpmforge mailing list. If you'd rather go for the kmod way, Alan Bartlett has been offering kABI-tracking kmods for several NIC drivers here:
http://centos.toracat.org/ajb/
I'm quite certain he will be happy to build one for sk98lin.
Yes, he did. :-) Here's the announcement:
"The C-4 kABI tracking kmod rpm packages (i586, i686 & x86_64 -- or, more correctly, 32- & 64-bit) containing the sk98lin driver are now available for public download from:
http://centos.toracat.org/ajb/CentOS-4/sk98lin/ "
I just wanted to add that the CentOS-5 versions is also available.
Akemi
On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 06:32:35AM -0800, Akemi Yagi wrote:
"The C-4 kABI tracking kmod rpm packages (i586, i686 & x86_64 -- or, more correctly, 32- & 64-bit) containing the sk98lin driver are now available for public download from:
Thanks for that! I'll definitely be testing that out today.
(Annoyingly, I can't recompile it from the source rpm because the kernel-devel package name requirements don't match what is actually present, but I'm sure I can work around that).
Thanks again!
Rgds Stephen
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