I posted a thread regarding DNS and DHCP about a week ago. I'll worry about these as soon as I get my NIC TO WORK!!!!

Like many, I am using a Netgear FA311 Ethernet Card. The Linux distribution I am using is Turbolinux Server 6.0 because I want full server capabilities. The kernel for this distro is 2.2.14-5. So I downloaded the needed files from Scyld.com(e.g. natsemi.c,pci-scan.*,and kern_compat.h)and attempted to compile natsemi.c with the following command:

gcc -DMODULE -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -c natsemi.c

After it executes, I receive a multitude of error messages that keep scrolling down the screen and have no clue as to what they mean. I will give some examples:

/usr/include/linux/resource.h:22: field `ru_utime' has incomplete type
/usr/include/linux/resource.h:23: field `ru_stime' has incomplete type
In file included from /usr/include/linux/mm.h:4,
from /usr/include/linux/slab.h:14,
from /usr/include/linux/malloc.h:4,
from natsemi.c:111:

That's only the beginning. However, I did realize that almost every error message regards /usr/include/linux with the exception of about ten that come from /usr/include/asm. I can REALLY use some help or advice. I would really like to keep using this distro, but need all the help I can get. Are there any driver downloads for this specific kernel? ANY help would be of interest and appreciation.

I finally figured out what was wrong. I was missing a needed parameter for the command. It was the following:

gcc -DMODULE -Wall -Wscript-prototypes -O6 -c -I/usr/src/linux/include natsemi.c

I was missing the "I" switch along with the path to kernel headers. You can find this information at Scyld.com(I don't remember the exact page). You do this for natsemi.c as well as pci-scan.c. After that, I installed these files using the following command:

install -m 644 pci-scan.o /lib/modules/`uname -r`/net/ and
install -m 644 natsemi.o /lib/modules/`uname -r`/net/

I then used the command "insmod" for both of these files, placed the following line in /etc/modules.conf or conf.modules:

alias eth0 natsemi

and restarted my computer.FINALLY SUCCESS! I also got DHCP up and running on my linuxbox to work with Win2K Pro. Thanks to Jharris for the info on where to get these references. For my next trick... DNS.