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PROBLEM IS SOLVED ALREADY. DON'T KNOW HOW TO REMOVE MY THREAD.....

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Hello,

I am running Suse 9.3 Pro with all kernel components installed and I have a problem compiling the driver for the US Robotics Gigabit Ethernet PCI adapter. The only info is in the readme and says:

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<RTL8169 Linux kernel driver>

Version: 2.0
Date: 2004-04-16
This is the Linux kernel driver released for
RealTek RTL8169s/8110s Gigabit Ethernet controller.

<Requirements>

- kernel source tree (supported versions 2.4.x or 2.6.x)
- compiler/binutils for kernel compilation

<Quick install with proper kernel settings>
Unpack the tarball :
unzip r8169_linuxdrv_vxx.zip

Change to the directory:
cd r8169

If you are running the target kernel, then you should be
able to do :

make clean modules (as root or with sudo)
make install
depmod -a
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I meet all the requirements but when I do "make clean modules" I get the following output:

make -C src/ clean
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/r8169/src'
rm -f *.o *.ko *~ core* .dep* .*.d .*.cmd *.mod.c *.a *.s .*.flags
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/r8169/src'
make -C src/ modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/r8169/src'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.11.4-20a-default/build SUBDIRS=/root/r8169/src modules
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.11.4-20a-obj/i386/default'
make -C ../../../linux-2.6.11.4-20a O=../linux-2.6.11.4-20a-obj/i386/default modules
/root/r8169/src/Makefile:28: /usr/src/linux-2.6.11.4-20a/src/Makefile_linux26x: Onbekend bestand of map (unknown file or directory)
make[5]: *** Geen regel voor het maken van doel `/usr/src/linux-2.6.11.4-20a/src/Makefile_linux26x'. Stop.
make[4]: *** [_module_/root/r8169/src] Fout 2
make[3]: *** [modules] Fout 2
make[2]: *** [modules] Fout 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.11.4-20a-obj/i386/default'
make[1]: *** [modules] Fout 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/r8169/src'
make: *** [modules] Fout 2
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'Fout 2' is dutch for 'Error 2'

Can somebody please help me solve this problem?

Kind regards,

Berry Goossens

Happy you found the solution but may I ask you how you solved the problem?

Sure I can tell you my solution, here it is:

The output of the compiler says at some point

/root/r8169/src/Makefile:28: /usr/src/linux-2.6.11.4-20a/src/Makefile_linux26x: unknown file or directory

The bold part is not correct. The file Makefile_linux26x is located in the src directory which is located in the directory I am compiling from (In my case /root/r8169). So the bold part is correct looking from this directory but not if one is looking from the linux kernel source directory. So somewhere an error is present in the makefile which makes the compiler search for the file in the wrong directory.
I solved it by making a src directory in /usr/src/linux-2.6.11.4-20a/ and put the file Makefile_linux26x in there and with this giving the compiler what it wants.
After this it compiled correctly.

It is a rather rough solution but I think it works.

However I still can't get it to initialise during boot, but I think this is a common problem which I already came across earlier. I will tackle this problem later.

Hope this is clear.

Kind regards,

Berry