NIC Driver Installation Problems

MailleMan · 05-12-2007, 10:02 PM

Hi all,

I have a relatively clean build of LFS for which I'm working on installing some BLFS packages (I've done Emacs and Lynx so far...) I am trying to install drivers for my network card (a Realtek RTL8168/8111). When I attempt to do a "make modules" as described in the driver documentation, I get the following error and standard output:

Quote:

make -C src/ modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/r1000_v1.05/src'
make -C /lib/modules/2.6.16.27/build SUBDIRS=/usr/src/r1000_v1.05/src modules
make[2]: Entering directory `/sources/linux-2.6.16.27'

WARNING: Symbol version dump /sources/linux-2.6.16.27/Module.symvers
is missing; modules will have no dependencies and modversions.

CC [M] /usr/src/r1000_v1.05/src/r1000_n.o
In file included from include/linux/module.h:10,
from /usr/src/r1000_v1.05/src/r1000.h:1,
from /usr/src/r1000_v1.05/src/r1000_n.c:5:
include/linux/sched.h:4:36: error: asm/param.h: No such file or directory
In file included from include/linux/types.h:15,
from include/linux/capability.h:16,
from include/linux/sched.h:7,
from include/linux/module.h:10,
from /usr/src/r1000_v1.05/src/r1000.h:1,
from /usr/src/r1000_v1.05/src/r1000_n.c:5:
include/linux/posix_types.h:47:29: error: asm/posix_types.h: No such file or directory
In file included from include/linux/capability.h:16,
from include/linux/sched.h:7,
from include/linux/module.h:10,
from /usr/src/r1000_v1.05/src/r1000.h:1,
from /usr/src/r1000_v1.05/src/r1000_n.c:5:
include/linux/types.h:16:23: error: asm/types.h: No such file or directory
In file included from include/linux/capability.h:16,
from include/linux/sched.h:7,
from include/linux/module.h:10,
from /usr/src/r1000_v1.05/src/r1000.h:1,
from /usr/src/r1000_v1.05/src/r1000_n.c:5:
include/linux/types.h:20: error: syntax error before '__kernel_dev_t'
include/linux/types.h:20: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of '__kernel_dev_t'
include/linux/types.h:20: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
include/linux/types.h:23: error: syntax error before 'dev_t'
include/linux/types.h:23: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'dev_t'
include/linux/types.h:23: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
include/linux/types.h:24: error: syntax error before 'ino_t'
include/linux/types.h:24: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'ino_t'
include/linux/types.h:24: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
include/linux/types.h:25: error: syntax error before 'mode_t'
include/linux/types.h:25: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'mode_t'
include/linux/types.h:25: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
include/linux/types.h:26: error: syntax error before 'nlink_t'
include/linux/types.h:26: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'nlink_t'
include/linux/types.h:26: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
include/linux/types.h:27: error: syntax error before 'off_t'
include/linux/types.h:27: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'off_t'

/usr/src/r1000_v1.05/src/r1000_n.c:1698: error: invalid type argument of '->'
/usr/src/r1000_v1.05/src/r1000_n.c:1698: error: 'TIF_NEED_RESCHED' undeclared (first use in this function)
/usr/src/r1000_v1.05/src/r1000_n.c:1698: warning: passing argument 1 of 'test_ti_thread_flag' makes pointer from integer without a cast
/usr/src/r1000_v1.05/src/r1000_n.c:1698: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
/usr/src/r1000_v1.05/src/r1000_n.c: In function 'r1000_get_stats':
/usr/src/r1000_v1.05/src/r1000_n.c:1705: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
/usr/src/r1000_v1.05/src/r1000_n.c:1707: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type

... (lots more stuff like that) ...

make[3]: *** [/usr/src/r1000_v1.05/src/r1000_n.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [_module_/usr/src/r1000_v1.05/src] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/sources/linux-2.6.16.27'
make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/r1000_v1.05/src'
make: *** [modules] Error 2

Looking around at other mentions of files like param.h, it looks like my kernel headers might not be installed correctly. Does this sound right, and if so, how can I go about repairing this? Thanks in advance.

MailleMan · 05-12-2007, 11:10 PM

As a follow-up to this, I tried patching and re-copying the kernel headers package according to the directions in the book, but I still get the same errors... Any ideas? :-/

hollywoodb · 05-12-2007, 11:19 PM

There's an in-kernel driver for that card, why not just compile your kernel with that either built as a module or built in? Does the externally provided Realtek driver offer some additional functionality?

MailleMan · 05-12-2007, 11:29 PM

Hmmm, well the answer to your "why not" question is ... I'm a Linux noob, lol. O.o I didn't realize it was supported by the kernel. So, I can just re-enable it in the kernel config and recompile the kernel? If that's the case, why would Realtek offer this driver at all? Thanks in advance...

PS: Even tho it may not be necessary, I'd be curious as to why this is failing; I would imagine other third-party software will encounter these problems if my kernel headers aren't accessible, unless the driver makefile is just poorly written...

MailleMan · 05-13-2007, 12:48 AM

I tried re-compiling the kernel with the appropriate driver, and unless I did something wrong there, it still seems to not recognize the card (it's compiled in directly, not as a module). I put in PCI Utils and did an lspci, and I see the card on that list, so at least that's a good sign...any other ideas? I saw somewhere that the kernel support might only work for this card after 2.6.19 kernels or so (and I'm running 2.6.17); I assume in that case I'd have to install the drivers straight from Realtek, which would bring us back to the previous problem. Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

MailleMan · 05-13-2007, 12:51 AM

If I'm reading it properly, this seems to suggest support wasn't in until at least 2.6.19...

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s....17/+bug/63314

MailleMan · 05-14-2007, 11:09 AM

So I've messed around with this quite a bit; did a *lot* of kernel upgrades (and downgrades) and worked through some issues where my hard drive wasn't getting recognized during boot (apparently because of the new "libsata" package or whatnot). Anyway...I'm currently at 2.6.22-rc1 and 2.6.21.1, and in both these cases my network card *is* recognized, but it always says "r8169: eth0: link down", and it looks like others have had similar problems with this NIC. I haven't seen mention of anyone fixing this problem while using the in-kernel drivers, but it looks like the ones from Realtek should work, so I'd be especially thankful if anyone could explain to me why the installation described above fails. If I can install the Realtek drivers then I can probably even just go back to the old kernel if I like, but in either case it sounds like the built-in driver is not reliable (at least for the RTL8168). Thanks very much in advance!

*edit* Here's the page where I saw mention of the Realtek driver fixing the problem...
http://linux-on-laptops.com/forum/showthread.php?t=265

MailleMan · 05-16-2007, 07:49 AM

So thanks to the LFS support list, I was informed that I'm simply missing my kernel source tree. After making it available and fixing a problem with the driver source code, I got it compiled and the kernel recognizes my card. However, it seems that I can't receive packets or that the connection isn't recognized (DHCP times out). Here is my output from "ifconfig eth0":

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:1180 (1.1 Kb)
Interrupt:18 Base address:0x3000

Anyone have any ideas as to what could be wrong? Thanks in advance.