[ale] Coyote install for DSL

[Dow Hurst]

Well, the status at this point is that Chris Ricker is correct in that I
need the latest tulip package with pci-scan included.  What I am
realizing is that the latest nicest version of Coyote uses the 2.2.16
kernel.  The stable version uses 2.2.14.  My laptop, where I am working
to make the boot floppy, has 2.2.14 and is running SuSE 6.4.  What is
interesting is that if I compile the pci-scan.c and tulip.c using my
laptop and this statement:

gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/net/inet -I/home/dhurst -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c pci-scan.c `[ -f
/usr/include/linux/modversions.h ] && echo -DMODVERSIONS`

and
gcc -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/net/inet -I/home/dhurst -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c tulip.c `[ -f
/usr/include/linux/modversions.h ] && echo -DMODVERSIONS`

the compile works just fine.  I have the kern_compat.h file in my home
directory during the compile.

Now when I tried the development release of Coyote, 2.2.16 version, I
got the incompatible kernel error when the pci-scan and tulip modules
tried to load.  When I tried the stable release based on 2.2.14, I got
lots of unresolved symbol errors but at least something was happening!
How can I get around this difficulty?  Will I need to wait for a Linux
Router Package based on a 2.3 kernel?  Does the latest netdriver package
contain more than kern_compat.h tulip.c and pci-scan.c?  Those three
files seemed to be what I needed after looking at Donald Becker's docs.

Thanks,
Dow


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