Thank you. I am looking for the common 8390 and ne NIC modules source files.
It seems I should explain why I am asking.
I have a NIC which I am using with the ne module. It seems to work well, apart
from the fact that when I boot the machine I have to disconnect the network,
and reconnect it after the machine is up.
Now it turned out that I have a DOS diskette with a DOS executable called
linux.exe, which unzip the files
fet916.c fet916.o linux.txt trans.dat.
Did someone came across this fet916 name ?
The file fet916.c contains the following lines, among others:
[04:31:30 /tmp]$ head -n 5 NIC/fet916.c
/* ne.c: A general non-shared-memory NS8390 ethernet driver for linux. */
/*
Written 1992-94 by Donald Becker.
Copyright 1993 United States Government as represented by the
[04:32:45 /tmp]$ head -n 35 NIC/fet916.c | tail -n 18
Changelog:
Paul Gortmaker : use ENISR_RDC to monitor Tx PIO uploads, made
sanity checks and bad clone support optional.
Paul Gortmaker : new reset code, reset card after probe at boot.
Paul Gortmaker : multiple card support for module users.
Paul Gortmaker : Support for PCI ne2k clones, similar to lance.c
Paul Gortmaker : Allow users with bad cards to avoid full probe.
*/
/* Routines for the NatSemi-based designs (NE[12]000). */
static const char *version =
"916.c:VIA Technologies Inc. 10BaseT Linux driver v1.0 \n";
[04:33:40 /tmp]$ tail NIC/fet916.c -n 6
* Local variables:
* compile-command: "gcc -DKERNEL -Wall -O6 -fomit-frame-pointer
-I/usr/src/linux/net/tcp -c ne.c"
* version-control: t
* kept-new-versions: 5
* End:
*/
As you can imagine, I wonder what the difference between this file and the
module that I already use because this file seems to relate to my problem.
Some more questions :
1) The linux.txt file says I should compile my kernel with a fast_ethernet
option. Is this because they were using slackware (it mentions rc.inet[12]) or
an old kernel, or did I miss a kernel option ?
2) The file trans.dat says I should compile the source file and then
cp ./fet916.o /usr/src/linux/modules/fet916.o. Should I change it to
/lib/modules/2.0.36 ?
>
> On Tue, 12 Oct 1999, shaul wrote:
>
> > Where can I find the modules source (*.c files) that were used to make the
> > modules that are copied to /lib/modules/2.0.36/ by default ?
>
> Most of those are items that were selected to be compiled as modules when
> the kernel was compiled. So the .c files are somewhere in the kernel
> source tree. If you want to see which options were specified to be
> modularized, check /boot/config-2.0.36 (where 2.0.36 is the kernel
> version).
>
> Others could be from alsa, pcmcia, or some extra package. Install the
> source packages (alsa-source, pcmcia-source) for those, the .c files will
> be in there.
>
