Hi.

I just installed Fedora Core 4 on my Toshiba Satellite M45-S331. It has an onboard Marvel Yukon 88E8036 PCI-E ethernet adapter and FC4 won't recognize it. I found this website: http://www.touslesdrivers.com/index....23&v_code=8160

and I downloaded the file. When I tried installing it, it "Failed" because there's no Kernel version file or something like that (I didn't save the error message)... I remember the solution the error message gave me was to make a symbolic link of /usr/src/KERNEL_VERSION to /usr/src/linux


Does anyone know how to solve this or know of any other way to install a working driver for it?

Thanks.

Try to use forcedeth if possible. It works wit marvell on nfroce chipsets.

thanks for the suggestion... it won't work, however... this laptop has an intel chipset

Marvel Yukon network cards are handled by the sk98lin driver, but unfortunately the linux kernel sk98lin (even with the latest 2.6 kernel)
doesn't support new cards.

Go to this url http://www.syskonnect.de/syskonnect/...tm/sk9elin.htm
It has the latest driver from syskonnect. It can produce a kernel patch for your kernel, or it can even compile a module for it
so you don't have to reboot. You just insmod the sk98lin module.

I don't know about the intel chipset, but i don't know anyone that had failure with the driver.
I use it for a long time and it works perfectly.

tried it again, won't work. when i try choosing the Install option it says it can't find the Kernel hearders... something about it not being in /usr/src/KERNEL_HEADER or /usr/src/linux

then I tried the Patch option but it says it's already present in the kernel

no idea... thanks a lot for trying to help

yes, you need kernel source in order to patch a kernel.

then you will need to RECOMPILE and build your own kernel.

If you can, just get the kernel-headers and then install the module way against that kernel, and use insmod as suggested above.
this way you don't have to rebuild and install your kernel.

yum install kernel-headers or something like that is what you need.

I dunno for sure cause I don't use FC..

-c

thanks, i'm gonna try that

Thanks imitheos for the SysKonnect link. It was just what I needed for an Intel Motherboard D915GEV with the Yukon NIC built it. The install script actually compiled the module and installed it with no intervention on my part--other than creating the /usr/src/linux symbolic link:

ln -s /usr/src/kernels/2.6.11-1.1369_FC4-smp-i686 /usr/src/linux

thanks, i tried that, it seemed to have worked but now i get this message:

Check kernel header version (Kernel:2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 == Header:2.6.11-1.1369_FC4) [ OK ]
Check kernel functions (Changed: nothing) [ OK ]
Compile the kernel (error) [ failed ]

An error has occurred during the compile proces which prevented
the installation from completing.
Take a look at the log file install.log for more informations.
Installation of sk98lin driver module failed.


any ideas?...

I had to use the kernel from kernel.org to get that ethernet card running on an AMD chip. Actuallynhad to take the kernel patch route outlined in the installation instructions provided with the driver.