Attansic GB ethernet

[Rick Stevens]

On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 21:41 +0000, Orlando Reis wrote:
> Hi, it seems I'm having all problems at the same time.
>  
> I just got ended over a Asus server with a p5l-vm motherboard with
> attansic onboard ethernet card.
> This system will be a production server. And adding another card was
> not on my initial plans when I
> made decided what hardware they should be buy.
>  
> I'm going nuts trying to configure this.
>  
> System is a brand new Dual Core system running fedora core 6.
>  
> Any ideas?
>  
> http://atl1.sourceforge.net/
>  
> Meanwhile I download the latest version of the driver from
>  
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/atl1
>  
> Documentation on how to install this nowhere to be found.

Well, it's a tarball, so here's the standard mechanism for building and
installing one.

1. Download the tarball to a scratch directory

2. Extract the tarball's contents:

	$ tar xzf name-of-tarball.tar.gz

That unpacks it into a directory (usually) named the same as the tarball
but without the ".tar.gz" bit.

3. "cd" into that directory and run

	$ ./configure

That configures the source.

4. Build the driver:

	$ make

5. Become the root user:

	$ su
	Password: (enter root user's password)

6. Install the driver:

	# make install

7. Try to load the driver:

	# modprobe name-of-driver

8. Verify that the driver loaded:

	# lsmod | grep name-of-driver

9. See if you have an eth0 device now:

	# ifconfig

10. If you have eth0, try to configure your network:

	# ifconfig eth0 aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd netmask www.xxx.yyy.zzz

That's pretty much it.


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