Hi,
i'm trying to install a 3C2000 card on Debian. I've the driver from a CD and when i do "make install" in the directory where 3C2000.o is, i obtain the error message:
" kernel varsion mismatch 3C2000.o was compiled for the kernel version 2.4.18, while this kernel is version 2.2.18-idepci".

Should i install and compile the 2.4.18 kernel? If yes, how do i do it?

thanks

www.tldp.org, HOWTOs, kernal howto

You have to install the kernel source and then go into the directory where you downloaded/copied the 3c2000 driver and do "make" and then "make load" as root. That will work for your current session. After you reboot, you'll have to do that every time while you are logged in as root or i believe that this card (i assume a 3com - mine is a 3com940) goes by the module " sk98lin " . Do a " modprobe sk98lin " as root in a command prompt. If that comes back with no errors, then just add " /sbin/modprobe sk98lin " to rc.modules in etc/rc.d/ . Might be different on your system as you have posted no system information.

Okay, so what if this doesn't work? When I run make it says "make: 3c2000.o is up to date" and when I run make load I get the same kernel mismatch error I've got 3 systems that use this mb. On one of them, after the initial install I ran up2date and got a new kernel BEFORE trying to add this in. And it worked fine. On my other systems I ran the "make load" on the kernel before I updated it and now I'm having the problem. I would appreciate any help! It looks like a lot of people have had this problem (or a similar one with this card).

Sorry, also, I'm running redhat 9 and have 100mbit cards in there as well.

On your cd there should be a readme file that explains how to install the driver on all Linux and Unix platforms.
It should be located on the 3com cd /linux/driver/readme.txt

Never mind :P If you're having this problem, just run a "make clean" and then re-run "make load"