I have a NETgear fa311 network card in my debian box.

I have menaged to complie the natsemi.c file but then i get stuck.

When I try load the module (insmod natsemi) it sais

Unresolved symbol pci_drv_unregister
Unresolved symbol pci_drv_register

modprobe doesn't work either.

it sais

Can't locate module natsemi.o even though it's there!?


Spamm me with suggestions :O)

Did you build pci-scan.o first? Natsemi.o depends on it.
Also, do use modprobe instead of insmod; modprobe will detect the dependency and load pci-scan.o first.

Instructions and further information are here.

When I compile all the modules for the fa311 card under RHL 7.2, I get the EXACT error that guys does: here's a detailed report:

Here's the situation:
I got the linux driver for Netgear's FA311 Network Card from www.skyld.com that uses the National Semiconductor Chip.

I am using RedHat 7.2

The new drivers COMPILE just fine (with a change in the source to use linux/slab.h instead of malloc.h because of deprecation)

The pci-scan.o drivers goes into the kernel just fine with 'insmod pci-scan.o'

however, the actual driver: natsemi.o also compiles just fine. When I 'insmod natsemi.o' to test it, I get:

'natsemi.o: init_module: No such device
Hint: incorrect insmod errors module parameters including invalid IO or IRQ parameters'

It appears that init_module is a function located in the driver, however I didn't not find a function call for that function anywhere in the whole driver. But the file had way too many pre-processor commands for me to attempt to go commenting stuff.

Anyway......the driver does compile, but won't insmod correctly.

My Netgear card is recognized, but when I 'lspci -v', I get a listing that doesn't have an IRQ # on it. All the other listings have one except the card.

I tried install the drivers into /lib/..... anyway, and went to linuxconf, but it fails to initialize the card.

Does ANYONE have any suggestions? I would really appreciate. I pretty much exhausted all the details above. Thanks.

extra info:
lspci -v gives:
O1:0a.O Ethernet Controller National Semiconductor
Subsystem: Netgear: Unknown device f311
Flags: bus master, fast Back2Back, medium devsel, latency 90
IO ports: 2800 disabled size=256
Memory @ f4101000 (non=prefetchable) disabled size=4k
Expansion rom at <unassigned> 64k

Notice no IRQ# listed.

THANKS guys.