IC Plus Gigabit (Abit board)

DeathWishR · #1 4th February 2007, 01:44 PM

Not sure if this should go in hardware or networking (or in stupid 2 sec answer to a 10 min question) but I don't remember having this much trouble fixing back in FC4 (my last distro). I am running FC6, btw.

My ethernet card isn't in FC's default loadout. It's an IC Plus family gigabit ethernet... and I had trouble in the past until I found the driver at this site. For some reason the driver won't compile even though I remember compiling it back when. Make continually gives me errors regardless of what I try (sudo included). Just to be clear, first is the card information followed by the output from make. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Hard to do much without the net.

Code:

==============output of lspci -vx===================

00:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Sundance Technology Inc / IC Plus Corp IC Plus IP1000 Family Gigabit Ethernet (rev 41)
        Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp. Unknown device 1416
        Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 5
        I/O ports at ea00 [size=256]
        Memory at dfffe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
        [virtual] Expansion ROM at 40000000 [disabled] [size=64K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
00: f0 13 23 10 07 00 30 02 41 00 00 02 08 20 00 00
10: 01 ea 00 00 00 e0 ff df 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 7b 14 16 14
30: 00 00 00 00 50 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 05 01 50 0a

================attempt to compile==================

[medeirosryan@localhost ipg]$ ls
IP1000A Linux driver v2.09f.zip  ipg_macros.h   ipg_tune.h     Makefile
ipg_constants.h                  ipg_main.c     make2.2mod.sh  PhyParam.h
ipg.h                            ipg_structs.h  make2.2.sh     readme.txt
[medeirosryan@localhost ipg]$ make
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6/build SUBDIRS=/home/medeirosryan/ipg modules 
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6-x86_64'
  CC [M]  /home/medeirosryan/ipg/ipg_main.o
In file included from /home/medeirosryan/ipg/ipg_main.c:159:
/home/medeirosryan/ipg/ipg.h:101:26: error: linux/config.h: No such file or directory
In file included from /home/medeirosryan/ipg/ipg_main.c:159:
/home/medeirosryan/ipg/ipg.h:130: error: â€˜UTS_RELEASEâ€™ undeclared here (not in a function)
make[2]: *** [/home/medeirosryan/ipg/ipg_main.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/medeirosryan/ipg] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6-x86_64'
make: *** [all] Error 2

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jcliburn · #2 4th February 2007, 05:28 PM

Many older vendor drivers depend upon the presence of a particular header file (config.h) that is no longer part of the kernel source tree as of about 2.6.18, IIRC.

Try this as root:

Code:

touch /usr/src/kernels/2.6.18-1.2798.fc6-x86_64/include/linux/config.h

This creates an empty config.h file, which should be enough to satisfy your driver source code.

You *may* have to hack /home/medeirosryan/ipg/ipg.h and add "#include <linux/utsrelease.h>", but for now let's see if adding an empty config.h solves your problem.

DeathWishR · #3 5th February 2007, 05:28 AM

Thank you so much. You were dead on! Simply adding an empty config.h file didn't work, unfortunately. I had to go ahead and add linux/utsrelease.h to the include list. Then worked like a charm. Modprobe still hates me for some unknown reason so I added it with insmod and then added the "alias eth0 ipg" line to /etc/modprobe.conf YAY! Ethernet is up and running.

I know that was more info than u needed, but being thorough if anyone else finds the thread ;]