using gcc to compile tulip.c
 

Let's try this again...
I am not trying to be lazy this time, I have been trying to figure this out for a matter of weeks now.
I am certain that the tulip.o driver is not already on my system, because I looked in /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/net...or some path to that effect. Anyway, I have the C program, and I just need to compile it, and the reason why I needed (or thought I needed) kgcc is because when I tried it with just gcc it first said that you need to use the -O option, so I did, then it came up with a bunch of errors in the source, like a whole screen of them, so I don't know if it's the source or what, but I got it from the Linksys site, which is the company that manufactured my card, so I wouldn't think the source would be that faulty. Anyway, any help would be awesome!

Thanks much,
Zeke
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i'd suggest upgrading your system to a slightly less ancient distro, you're even on a 2.2 kernel, that's almost 3 years old.... things move fast round here... if you upgrade to say, redhat 7.3 or 8 or a similarly new distro then the driver should be there just fine.

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Ok, yeah, sounds good.
Thanks a lot!

alternatively, learn how to compile a kernel (if you haven't already) and download an updated Kernel (v2.2 preferably, since that's what your system uses already, or, v2.4 if you read the.. CHANGES file I believe. That should tell you what you need to upgrade in your distribution to get v2.4 to work properly.)

tulip's been around for ages though. If you have a complied kernel source tree, it will be in there somewhere as tulip.c. Now I think it's tulip2.c or something like that, but that wasn't implimented until 2.4, I think? *shrug* not important.

You don't need to upgrade your whole Distrubition to get a network card to work.