Some drivers do require recompilation.......for ex.
we bought some new Compaq deskpro's which have the Intel815
chipset with onboard ethernet controller. The driver that Compaq
provided for Linux (onthe softpaq site) would work only with
kernel version 2.2.12 - 2.2.14. All other kernel versions needed
recompilation....
Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
>
> Manish Handa rearranged electrons thusly:
>
> >Ten mark for guessing the name :) Can i find it anywhere on the
> > web(where) . i have a version that works perfectly with RH6.2 but i want a
> > RH7.0 version.
>
> Is there a difference? Most network cards I've seen (eepro and such) don't
> need recompiled drivers when you switch from rh6.x to rh7
>
> Anyway get the tulip driver from their page at
> <http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html>
>
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