I am trying to install an Attensic L2 Network Driver. I followed the instructions that came with the motherboard but still doesn't work for me. I am using a Fedora 8 distribution.

When I do a "make install" in the source folder I get the following errors. What am I missing?

[root@localhost Attansic]# cd l2-linux-v1.0.40.4
[root@localhost l2-linux-v1.0.40.4]# cd src/
[root@localhost src]# make install
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.23.1-42.fc8/build SUBDIRS=/root/Attansic/l2-linux-v1.0.40.4/src modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.23.1-42.fc8-i686'
CC [M] /root/Attansic/l2-linux-v1.0.40.4/src/at_main.o
/root/Attansic/l2-linux-v1.0.40.4/src/at_main.c: In function ‘at_intr_rx’:
/root/Attansic/l2-linux-v1.0.40.4/src/at_main.c:2081: error: implicit declaration of function ‘eth_copy_and_sum’
make[2]: *** [/root/Attansic/l2-linux-v1.0.40.4/src/at_main.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/root/Attansic/l2-linux-v1.0.40.4/src] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.23.1-42.fc8-i686'
make: *** [default] Error 2


ilai

Hi,
This error generally comes when ur makefile file is not correct so either install it again or install from another link.
If u have any zip file then do the following commands
#tar zxf <driver.name>.tar.gz
#cd <driver name>
#make
#make install

I hope this helps you.

Fedora 9 ships with the atl2 driver so you don't have to build your own. I don't know about your Fedora 8 kernel version, but with newer F8 kernels (2.6.25 and 2.6.26, at least), the atl2 driver is also present.

You can check to see if it's already in your kernel by running this command:

Now to address your build error...

The driver you're trying to build is too old for your kernel. The kernel function "eth_copy_and_sum" was removed in kernel version 2.6.23 -- which is the kernel version you're using -- but your driver source contains a call to that function.

Go here and see if you can find a driver that builds for you.

http://people.redhat.com/csnook/atl2/

But again, I'm not sure you really need to build your own.

I too was having this problem, but understand why jcliburn needs to do this. I have an application that will only run under Fedora 8, and I'm installing it on a system that only has the atl2. I can't just upgrade to the new kernel for Fedora 8 because, well, I don't have working ethernet yet.

It took me a couple of hours this morning, but I finally figured it out, thanks to jcliburn's link.

I downloaded the latest driver, transferred it to the Linux machine with a USB drive, ran the Make command, and then I got stuck when I tried to run insmod. Apparently the sbin folder in Fedora 8 is not in the path, so you need to either add it or run /sbin/insmod followed by the location and name of the atl2.ko that was created during the Make command.

Then I had to enable and activate the ethernet card using the networking tools in Gnome and then run the system updater.