Jerry. Thanks. See answers below. I copied 'rtl8180-0.21.tar.gz' from the flash drive to my home directory, so I don't loose it in trying to install it. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry W. Hubbard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CWE-LUG" <[email protected]>; "Anthony Lordi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 8:24 PM Subject: [cwe-lug] WPC11ver.4 (was Re: CentOS)
> Anthony Lordi wrote: > >> Jerry. There is no hurry. I'm trying different things and learning. I >> downloaded two files from different places and got >> 'rtl8180-0.21tar.gz' and got 'rtl8180-0.21.tar.tar'. I #gunzup >> rtl8180 -0.21.tar.gz and got 'rtl8180-0.21tar ' on the flash drive. >> That is where things went to error messages. I tried to #'make' the >> file to change the kernel, tried #makfile, #insmod,#modprobe, and >> seemed to keep getting the can't find file error. I concluded it has >> something to do with "tar". Can you give some generic help as to the >> tar.tar and tar.gz. Now, how do I get it into the kernel? Tony >> > > Before helping with the above, more information is needed to avoid some > other problems. > > Step one is find out which Kernel you are running and version of gcc. > > Open a terminal and type > /uname -a/ > > You should see something like this: > Linux xxxxx.yyyy 2.6.9-22.0.2.EL #1 Tue Jan 17 06:51:40 CST 2006 i686 > athlon i386 GNU/Linux Yes, the answer is similar. "Linux xx.yy 2.4.9-e.40 #1 > Next type > /gcc -v/ > We will need to know the last line for this command. > The last line should look like this: > gcc version 3.4.4 20050721 (Red Hat 3.4.4-2) "gcc version 2.96 20000731(Red Hat Linux 7.2 2.96-128.7.2" > Also see if the driver will load with this command: > /insmod -f rtl8180_24x.o > /(You should be root to load the driver.)/ When I did the above in root, I got the message 'no such file or directory'. I also tried the group of commands in the snippet in Roberts email and got back only the root command prompt. Then for # echo $? got the number 127. Needless to say, I don't know what error it means. I think the problem is in my handling of the tar and gz, but nothing I tried worked. I have the zipped file in my home directory. The module rtl8180_24x.o the snippet was trying to insert may be one of the files in the tar.gz file I downloaded and copied to a folder /home/acl/wpc11v.4-driver/rtl8180-0.21.tar.gz. Also, /mnt/flash has the original downloaded directory, rtl8180-0.21.tar.gz. The module rtl8180_24x.o might be hard to find. I tried unzipping to get rid of the gz. I couldn't get rid of the tar. The readme talks of 4 files to insert, three with ieee in them. That didn't work either. Directory rtl8180-0.21 has 39 files in it, none of which are rtl8180_24x.o. Where does this file with the trailing .o come from? Thanks for any help. Tony p.s. I know the driver probably wants a newer distro, but CentOS 2 is was what I had. Ubuntu and Kanotix wouldn't install. Knoppix wouldn't configure. Next I'll try Libranet. Hey, I'm having fun. > /The Realtek readme states the driver module was compiled into Linux by > default starting with kernel 2.4.18. > > Paste the results of each of these commands into your reply. This will > guide us to the next step. > > Tony, I am moving this discussion back to the CWE-LUG list. List members > may have a better solution. > > I think Scott knows of a program to turn a tarball into an RPM. > > -- > Jerry Hubbard > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ > CWE-LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.cwelug.org/ > http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ > http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/ _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
