Okay, this supersedes the previous. I have succeeded in installing
Woody on the Thinkpad, using the 'dummy' network interface. A stack
of errors which will be easily cleared up as soon as I actually can
connect to the internet, via our home-office ethernet. The interface
card claims to support Linux. It is a net-lynx 428X. It comes with
a floppy, with instructions for installing its driver. This is what
it says:
Realtek CardBus Ethernet Card Installation on Linux
1. Compile the source code :
->Copy the source code rtl8139.c (ver 1.08 above) to a directory
and execute "gcc -DCARDBUS -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes
-O6 -c rtl8139.c -o realtek_cb.o
-I/usr/src/linux/pcmcia-cs-3.0.9/include/"
The directory "pcmcia-cs-3.0.9" stands for the card service
version you use. Please change it to the version on your system
in order to include proper .h file. The final file is
realtek_cb.o
2. Copy driver :
->Copy the file "realtek_cb.o" to "/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/pcmcia"
3. Edit config:
->Add 5 lines to the file "/etc/pcmcia/config"
[...]
after that it should be easy.
This doesn't seem to be workable with the directory structure debian
has installed. I have managed to copy the file to a directory (in
spite of the thinkpad not being able to read floppies properly - but
that is a separate problem).
In para. 1. there is no directory like
/usr/src/linux/pcmcia-cs-3.0.9/include/ - I cannot find any
*pcmcia*/include/. What should I do here?
If someone can help me here, I can try to compile this. If it
succeeds, it will be the first time I ever compile anything
successfully! The floppy they provide also includes a file called
'kern_compat.h', but there are no instructions what to do with it.
It is mentioned once in rtl8139.c as follows:
#ifdef INLINE_PCISCAN
#include "k_compat.h"
#else
// #include "pci-scan.h"
#include "kern_compat.h"
#endif
which looks commented out to me, but I don't pretend to know C. Can
anyone tell me if I need to copy it too?
The main reason for moving to Debian (apart from the wonderful people
here) was for apt-get and friends, but I can't even start to benefit
if I can't get online... it's sooo frustrating.
--
richard
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