> I installed Redhat 6.2 on a Compaq Dekspro 2000.
> I have a Winbond -840 lan card.
> I downloaded the drivers for the card.
> Can anyone tell me how to compile the driver and use them.
the version of this driver which i have has a comment line which gives the
commands to compile for smp and non smp compiles as:
* compile-command:
"gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/net/inet -Wall -Wstrict-prototyp
es -O6 -c winbond-840.c `[ -f /usr/include/linux/modversions.h
] && echo -DMODVERSIONS`"
* SMP-compile-command:
"gcc -D__SMP__ -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/net/inet -Wall -Wstric
t-prototypes -O6 -c winbond-840.c `[ -f /usr/include/linux/modversions.h ]
&& echo -DMODVERSIONS`"
after u compile the file, copy the .o file to
/lib/modules/<kernel-version>/net and then set up your network card to use
the winbond-840.o for your ethernet card...
Bye,
/\ |\/| |3 /\ r
PS: I hav had some very bad experiences with compex RL100a cards which have
this chip! the version of the drivers that i had wud allow me to do a ftp
transfer at speeds of max 300kb/sec (on a 100Mbps network, where intel cards
give me approx 5000Kb/sec) when the originating host is a linux machine..
but under windows there was no such problems... so don't be alarmed...
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