I have a Soyo Dragon 2 KT880 motherboard. and i can not get the driver to install. im a noob with linux. I have the drivers on the cd, now it says to compile it, do i have to compile it in the terminal? or something like emacs. im using kde and Fedora Core 2. if its command line what do i type in to compile it.


thanks

This is my guess and is standard on most source files.

1. Extract the contents if it is compressed.
2. Goto where you extracted it.
3. There should be some readme, install, or info files that should help out.
4. If not and there is a file called ' configure ' then first type ' ./configure '
5. Once done type ' make '
6. Then type ' make install ' note this will most likely require root access. So you call type ' su ' and enter root's password. Now type ' make install '
7. Being a module then you should type ' modprobe ******* ' Where ******* is the name of the module. That should be in your documentation.

If it works then you can add it to your /etc/modules.conf or /etc/modprobe.conf depending on linux distro which you did not include.
Example of my /etc/modprobe.conf
Or it can be added to your /etc/rc.local file as ' modprobe ***** '

One other note if you compile a new kernel then it will need to be recompiled as above or can be patched into kernel tree and built with the kernel.

Brian1
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im using fedora core 2

and everything worked up untill step 7

it didnt like the command modprobe thanks for your help so far though

What was your error output? What was your module for the nic created? What was the command you typed?

Brian1
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error output: bash: modprobe: command not found

module name: velocityget.ko

modprobe velocityget.ko



like i said im a noob at linux.

Try this command ' /sbin/modprobe velocityget ' as root
Also modprobe is in /sbin directory. It is not in a default users path. modprobe can only be issued by root or su -.

Brian1
" Google the Linux way @ http://www.google.com/linux "

hey that worked


edit: internet is up and running!!!



thanks a ton brian

Glad to be of help there fifthgear.

Brian1
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now i can update everything

im back......i had to scrap that install after needing the drive for my senior project.

now when i run the make command i get the following error (same files by the way)




/lib/modules/2.6.5-1.358/build/include/asm/hw_irq.h:28 error: 'NR_IRQ_VECTORS' undeclared here (not in a function)

/lib/modules/2.6.5-1.358/build/include/asm/hw_irq.h:32 error: 'NR_IRQs' undeclared here (not in a function)





what the hell

edit: would upgrading to Core 3 help any?

upgraded to core 3 and its workin fine


maybe it will detect my sound card with core 4