On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 6:03 PM, <jasonps...@jegas.com> wrote: >>> I thought there was no way I missed a simple network driver... >> >>For your network card, try: >> >>lspci -k >> >>In the host; this will give you the module used to support your card. If it >>say something like ath5k.ko (or something similar), look in the Makefile of >>drivers/net/ (in the kernel sources) for the corresponding entry ath5k.c and >>you'll have the correct setting to enter in the kernel configuration. >> >>Look also in the staging directory. >> >>Alain >> > > Cool TRick - and I see how that might worked ... but what I found is... > the driver > is name tg3. It is from Broadcom. They have a Linux Driver - its in > *.rpm format, > the source code is for a 2.6 kernel (might not work on 3.1, might... I > dunno) but > rather than fight and fight to figure out how to get this to work (which > it might not.. > lots of Redhat Suse talk in the docs and stuff like file paths might not > work etc.
The tg3 driver is inside the kernel source, you don't need an RPM for that. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
