ASUS P5GD2 Marvell Yukon 88E8053 gigabit ethernet not detected/loaded

[Jeff Vian]

On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 16:21 -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 16:06, Jeff Vian wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 13:37 -0500, Scot L. Harris wrote:
> 
> > > 
> > > I thought I could get by with just the header files but it seemed like
> > > it really did need the kernal sources.  I pulled those down and loaded
> > > per the release notes.
> > > 
> > > Had to link the directory to /usr/src/linux and then the install script
> > > ran.  This did install the driver and I was able to configure it and get
> > > it working.
> > > 
> > 
> > It probably needed the source because of hard coded paths to the headers
> > in the Makefile or configure.
> > 
> > Try checking the paths next time because a simple change to the header
> > path will often fix that for you.
> > 
> > Headers on my machine are in /usr/modules/<kernel version>/build and I
> > build driver modules all the time.
> 
> Just looked, I don't have a /usr/modules directory.  Are the include
> files part of another package?
> 
> Explains why I could not find them.

OOPS,  I meant /lib/modules.  Sorry about that.

> 
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