Installing New Drivers

hi Suse64 ver 9.2 refuses to connect to inet,
even tho winXP does on that machine - so the
NIC and feed are ok,

maybe the ABIT kv8pro onboard ethernet driver
given by Linux
needs updating from "via-velocity" to
"velocityget" ?
so ive unzipped it off the mobo CD into /tmp/
and tried MAKE, but it says "err37 sources not
config, cant find config.h"

***the kernel-sources are loaded, but i cant find
config.h
and also dont know how to "configure" it anyway.

can anyone help please ?

PS yast says the card is "already configured" (dhcp) and
it occasionally
gets the router setup screen on 192.168.1.1
briefly, then drops it.
konqueror gets about 1inch of the top of the page
then gives up.
Linux seems to be "struggling" - what could that
mean ?

are "IP forwarding" and "Request broadcast
response" needed ?

many thanks.

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On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 11:00:07 GMT, Marshall Kiam-Laine
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> hi Suse64 ver 9.2 refuses to connect to inet,
> even tho winXP does on that machine - so the
> NIC and feed are ok,
>
> maybe the ABIT kv8pro onboard ethernet driver
> given by Linux
> needs updating from "via-velocity" to
> "velocityget" ?
> so ive unzipped it off the mobo CD into /tmp/
> and tried MAKE, but it says "err37 sources not
> config, cant find config.h"
>
> ***the kernel-sources are loaded, but i cant find
> config.h
> and also dont know how to "configure" it anyway.
>
Was there a README file in the zip? Most software that's distributed as
source code is configured with the command
./configure
or
make config


--
"At a scheduled time, the robot would pull the flush lever and scream as
it got sucked down the drain." --Kibo

hi Bill, yes there is linux.txt in the driver
package,
but after unzip to /tmp/ it then
only says "compile" and "copy object" to
/lib/modules/.....
it doesnt specify MAKE INSTALL but i
suppose thats how to do it ?

but when i tried MAKE it said "err37 cant
find config.h"
the "kernel-sources" are loaded, so where is
the config.h it expects ?
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"Bill Marcum" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:bg1682-(E-Mail Removed)...
> ["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.setup.]
> On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 11:00:07 GMT, Marshall Kiam-Laine
> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> hi Suse64 ver 9.2 refuses to connect to inet,
>> even tho winXP does on that machine - so
>> the
>> NIC and feed are ok,
>>
>> maybe the ABIT kv8pro onboard ethernet
>> driver
>> given by Linux
>> needs updating from "via-velocity" to
>> "velocityget" ?
>> so ive unzipped it off the mobo CD into
>> /tmp/
>> and tried MAKE, but it says "err37 sources
>> not
>> config, cant find config.h"
>>
>> ***the kernel-sources are loaded, but i cant find
>> config.h
>> and also dont know how to "configure" it anyway.
>>
> Was there a README file in the zip? Most software
> that's distributed as
> source code is configured with the command
> ./configure
> or
> make config
>
>
> --
> "At a scheduled time, the robot would pull the flush
> lever and scream as
> it got sucked down the drain." --Kibo