Unable to activate VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102[RHINE-II] nic card

Linuxmyatuk · 04-21-2005, 07:49 PM

I AM A GREEN HORN.. NEWBIE to LINUX have had some help but help has less time with new job.

Have a Dual boot system on a AVERATEC 5400 series laptop. With FEDORA CORE 3 and XP home. It has a AMD Athlon XP-M 2800+w/ QuantiSpeed Architecture, 512 MB DDR, 40 GB HDD, Wireless connectivity w/ 802.11g technology.

I am unable to connect to the internet when in Fedora Core 3, I have tried activating my nic card with no success. I have a internal nic card to the laptop. It is a VIA Technologies, INC. VT6102[RHINE-II] card. When trying to activate the card receiving this error.
" Determining IP information for ETH0...SIOCSIFFLAGS:Invalid argument SIOCSIFFLAGS: INvalid Argument Failed." All and any help is appreciated. THANKS

Thoreau · 04-21-2005, 08:06 PM

Via just open sourced the drivers. Here is yours. Viel Spass.

http://www.viaarena.com/downloads/dr...6102v25VIA.zip

wezhousheng · 04-21-2005, 10:28 PM

hi !
i'm the same via card with you.
i have download the 6102v25VIA.zip but it's only support linux kernel version 2.2.x and 2.4.x (2.4.1-2.4.6) now.
but you know the kernel of FC3 is 2.6
where can i get the newest ?

Thoreau · 04-21-2005, 10:44 PM

You can recompile from source, grab it here:

http://www.viaarena.com/default.aspx?PageID=2

Linuxmyatuk · 04-22-2005, 03:48 AM

OK.. i have copied file from a CD and copied it to a directory I created and untar the file. Now, it say to compile the driver source files. I have done a google search on how to compile a file. Nothing out there seems to be straight forward. Can anyone explain how to compile the source driver

Linuxmyatuk · 04-22-2005, 03:55 AM

OK Have found the command to compile the file BUT have received error.
***"The Kernal header files path /usr/src/linux/include doesn't exist.
*** We can't compile this driver successfully without it.
*** Please install Kernal Header files before you compile this driver.

How do I do this? Unsure what this all means.. Thanks in advance.

wezhousheng · 04-22-2005, 05:26 AM

hi
how did you compiled it
there seems to have many .c and .h files but the configure file hasn't appeared
how did you used them

Thoreau · 04-22-2005, 05:33 AM

Install your kernel-source and kernel-headers. This comes with every linux OS, so it is there. Install them.

./configure
make
make install

Are typical compiling steps for apps or modules.

Linuxmyatuk · 04-22-2005, 07:35 PM

Would I want to install the 2.4.X Kernel Header and Source or the 2.6.x. If it is the 2.6.x Wouldn't Fedora Core 3 2.6.x already have the headers and source for 2.6

Thoreau · 04-22-2005, 09:30 PM

For 2.6

Nighthawk4 · 05-01-2005, 11:59 AM

I didn't have any problem with this card in FC3 - it was auto-detected and is working fine.

However, Debian didn't detect it, so I could not get an Internet connection with Debian.

Since Debian also didn't recognise any Graphics cards later than GeForce3 and so I could only get my GeForce4 to work as a VESA card, I eventually gave up on Debian. A nice trip back into the past, but to install 7 CDs and then find it does not recognise my Graphics card, NIC, Modem, Flat-Screen Monitor, soundcard, etc. A waste of time - sorry to the many fans of Debian, but there it goes.

I realise this doesn't really help with the question - except to show that FC3 does work with this NIC, in some cases.