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Hi
I have succeeded to boot a version of 2.6.15 on this machine but found I had no longer any ethernet, no eth0 device. (eth0 worked fine on the std 2.4.27 kernel)
So thought this required tweak of some CRC modules and decided
to build broadcom netxtreme driver into kernel.
from lspci on D610:
0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 01)
so I made another run of make xconfig
then make-kpkg clean make-kpkg --append_to_version=.d610.5 --revision=d610.5 kernel-image
(this procedure has worked fine for all other Makes I made)
only this time bombs out with following error
LD init/built-in.o
LD .tmp_vmlinux1
drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x66c79): In function `bnx2_set_rx_mode':
: undefined reference to `crc32_le'
drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x69320): In function `bnx2_test_nvram':
: undefined reference to `crc32_le'
drivers/built-in.o(.text+0x6934e): In function `bnx2_test_nvram':
: undefined reference to `crc32_le'
make[1]: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.15'
make: *** [stamp-build] Error 2
Any ideas ?
this is excerpt from my .config file:
# PHY device support
#
# CONFIG_PHYLIB is not set
#
# Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit)
#
CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
CONFIG_MII=y
# CONFIG_HAPPYMEAL is not set
# CONFIG_SUNGEM is not set
# CONFIG_CASSINI is not set
# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM is not set
#
# Tulip family network device support
#
# CONFIG_NET_TULIP is not set
# CONFIG_HP100 is not set
# CONFIG_NET_PCI is not set
# CONFIG_NET_POCKET is not set
#
# Ethernet (1000 Mbit)
#
# CONFIG_ACENIC is not set
# CONFIG_DL2K is not set
CONFIG_E1000=m
CONFIG_E1000_NAPI=y
# CONFIG_NS83820 is not set
# CONFIG_HAMACHI is not set
CONFIG_R8169=m
# CONFIG_R8169_VLAN is not set
# CONFIG_SIS190 is not set
# CONFIG_SK98LIN is not set
CONFIG_TIGON3=m
CONFIG_BNX2=y
#
# Ethernet (10000 Mbit)
#
# CONFIG_CHELSIO_T1 is not set
# CONFIG_IXGB is not set
# CONFIG_S2IO is not set
Same problem, compiled tigon3 as a module and it works now. This is on Gentoo. However, it was working on this same laptop (D610) with the same kernel with tigon3 compiled into the kernel. This was after upgrading the kernel from 2.6.11 though and using the previous config file. It was after doing a clean install that this problem occured, so maybe its something in the 2.6.15 default config file?
Actually my problem turned out to be /boot wasn't mounted when I was running make install...doh! Which is why being configured as a module worked...Perhaps you did the same?
I very new to the Knoppix realm and love all the tools that STD offers. I just received a new Dell D610 with a builtin Broadcom NetXtreme 57xx Gigabit C, Bluetooth, Dell Wireless 1370WLAN Mini-PCI C. I am using the STD 0.1 iso image, and it appears that it can not see any of my NICs. Can anyone point me to a version I can download that works? I have no clue how to complie my own.
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