1) Create a temporary directory:
mkdir /temp

2) Change to the temporary directory:
cd /temp

3) Copy driver (rhinefet.tgz) from DOS disk, (mcopy below is one tool in
mtools, if you didn't install mtools, you can type
'mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt' and use 'cp /mnt/rhinefet.tgz /temp'
command to copy the driver to the temporary directory):
mcopy a:rhinefet.tgz .

4) untar the archive file:
tar xzvf rhinefet.tgz
cd src

5) Compile the driver source files and it will generate rhinefet.o, and
copy it to correct driver installation path (The installation directory
is different in different kernel versions. In 2.4.x/2.6.x kernel, the path
is /lib/modules/KERNEL_VERSION/kernel/drivers/net/, and in 2.2.x kernel,
the path is /lib/modules/KERNEL_VERSION/net/, the KERNEL_VERSION (see
above) means the kernel version of your Linux distribution. If you don't
know your kernel version , please run 'uname -r' command in command
line. The kernel version will look like '2.2.16', '2.4.2-2smp' etc.) :
make install

6) Check configuration file (/etc/modules.conf or /etc/conf.modules or
/etc/modprobe.conf, it depends on your Linux distribution) for loading
kernel modules. Make sure the first line below is appeared in the
configuration file, where # is the interface number (eg: alias eth0
rhinefet). If you need to set the driver options, below second line is
an example to set the NIC to 100Mbps fullduplex mode (remember to unmark
the line if it is put in the configuration file).
alias eth# rhinefet
#options eth# speed_duplex=2

7) Reboot now:
shutdown -r now

8) Install your driver module (If the driver module is in the wrong place,
an error message will appear, and say that can't find the driver
module):
insmod rhinefet.o

9) Use ifconfig command to assign the IP address, where # is network
interface number:
ifconfig eth# <IP>

10) Check the interface works:
ping <remote_host_IP>






this message is available file in read file

what i want to do in the 5th step ? i could not able do..
how to compile according to this message

i am using the centOS 5.6

Usually you execute the make command.

but it is not working

have you tried running just make before running make install?

yeah i tried..

when i type the mae
it is saying "Makefile:16 *** Linux kernel source not found. stop.

do you have the kernel-dev package installed? If not, that is probably your problem.

ok i am downloading the http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat...s.plus.src.rpm

and installing in few minutes

install the kernel-devel rpm's
and while you are at it do two groupinstalls
also just HOW old is this code ????
the instructions you posted talk about the 2.2 and 2.4 versions of the kernel

this might not compile with centOS 5.6 gcc 4.1
you might need the older gcc 3.4
It should be there as gcc34 or gcc-3.4 or compact-gcc34 something like that.