Re: Can't get driver to work: D-Link DFE-570TX (de4x5.o) on Linux 2.4

[Peter Jay Salzman <p@dirac.org>]

On Wed 14 Mar 01,  1:08 PM, Avi Green said: 
> Dear folks,
> 
> Unfortunately, when I build the 2.4 kernel (which I must do because I
> need Netfilter), I can't get the card to work.
 
have you searched deja.com?  usenet is a powerful resource.

have you read the ethernet howto?

> * I've tried inserting the old de4x5.o module that came with 2.2, but
> there are unmatched symbols.
 
there's a couple of reasons why that may not work.   fops table might be
different, for example.

> * I've tried inserting the new de4x5.o module that came with 2.4 in
> drivers/net, but it either complains of no such device, I/O error, or

sounds like a probing error?

> "couldn't find the kernel version the module was compiled for".
 
sounds like a modversions problem.  check out this mailing list's archives.
we had a conversation about this about 2 weeks ago.  see if that helps.

pete

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