2009/3/2 Rowan <rowa...@googlemail.com>:

It is a command, yes. However I just tried it here using that driver and it fails, because the (realtek - not LC) seem to have hard-wired the kernel version in the Makefile.

Note:-

root@mpc-xubuntu:/root/lc2000# grep KVER r8168-8.008.00/src/Makefile KVER := 2.6.25.17

So when you come to run the "make clean modules" command it will fail thusly:-

root@mpc-xubuntu:/root/lc2000/r8168-8.008.00# make clean modules make -C src/ clean make[1]: Entering directory `/root/lc2000/r8168-8.008.00/src' rm -rf *.o *.ko *~ core* .dep* .*.d .*.cmd *.mod.c *.a *.s .*.flags .tmp_versions Module.symvers Modules.symvers *.order make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/lc2000/r8168-8.008.00/src' make -C src/ modules make[1]: Entering directory `/root/lc2000/r8168-8.008.00/src' make -C /lib/modules/2.6.25.17/build SUBDIRS=/root/lc2000/r8168-8.008.00/src modules make: Entering an unknown directory make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.25.17/build: No such file or directory. Stop. make: Leaving an unknown directory make[1]: *** [modules] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/lc2000/r8168-8.008.00/src' make: *** [modules] Error 2

(Note it's looking for /lib/modules/2.6.25.17/build which wont exist on my system (and probably yours) because that's not a kernel I've ever used - and certainly don't currently).

If you're lucky then perhaps LC have modified the file already from the version shipped by RealTek, (I don't have an LC machine to check this) and so that command above may well work. However what I did was modify the file /root/lc2000/r8168-8.008.00/src/Makefile to change the following line from:-

KVER := 2.6.25.17

to:-

KVER := `uname -r`

This means that when you run the "make" commands in their guide, it will determine at runtime what the current kernel version is - which is what the command "uname -r" does:-

root@mpc-xubuntu:/root/lc2000/r8168-8.008.00# uname -r 2.6.27-11-generic

So now, when I run the command they recommend, it works (unlike earlier where it failed to find 2.6.25.17):-

root@mpc-xubuntu:/root/lc2000/r8168-8.008.00# make clean modules make -C src/ clean make[1]: Entering directory `/root/lc2000/r8168-8.008.00/src' rm -rf *.o *.ko *~ core* .dep* .*.d .*.cmd *.mod.c *.a *.s .*.flags .tmp_versions Module.symvers Modules.symvers *.order make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/lc2000/r8168-8.008.00/src' make -C src/ modules make[1]: Entering directory `/root/lc2000/r8168-8.008.00/src' make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build SUBDIRS=/root/lc2000/r8168-8.008.00/src modules make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-11-generic' CC [M] /root/lc2000/r8168-8.008.00/src/r8168_n.o /root/lc2000/r8168-8.008.00/src/r8168_n.c: In function ârtl8168_downâ: /root/lc2000/r8168-8.008.00/src/r8168_n.c:4494: warning: unused variable âpoll_lockedâ /root/lc2000/r8168-8.008.00/src/r8168_n.c: At top level: /root/lc2000/r8168-8.008.00/src/r8168_n.c:2420: warning: ârtl8168_phy_power_downâ defined but not used /root/lc2000/r8168-8.008.00/src/r8168_n.c:3834: warning: ârtl8168_reinit_taskâ defined but not used LD [M] /root/lc2000/r8168-8.008.00/src/r8168.o Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST 1 modules CC /root/lc2000/r8168-8.008.00/src/r8168.mod.o LD [M] /root/lc2000/r8168-8.008.00/src/r8168.ko make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.27-11-generic' strip --strip-debug r8168.ko make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/lc2000/r8168-8.008.00/src'

Note that it now uses 2.6.27-11-generic which (as you see from uname -r above) is the kernel I am running. I have not installed it because my ,machine doesn't have that chipset so the driver would be redundant, but I just wanted you to see what happens when you run the command so you know what output to expect.

Note: In the pasted output above, ignore the odd accented characters, these are an artifact of the way I am connected to my server.

Cheers, Al.