sis 190 driver for linux

[GEJOE DANIEL]

Dear all,
i'am writing this to you with slightly desperate mind.Mine is AMD 64 with Asus motherboard having inbuilt Sis190 10/100 ethernet card which FC3
linux couldn't identify with its inbuilt driver software.One man told me that
linux ethernet driver will be available at www.sis.com but i got only C file from it and not rpm package.
Please can anyone help me...
I'am new to this site.
How should i use this site...I get message from the admin...should i use those links or should i login seperately to this site??
I'am a newbie.....
Thanks in advance,
Gejoe D

[spoon!]

Did you read the "readme.txt" file on how to compile it and stuff?

[GEJOE DANIEL]

thanks for the reply.
If i have any problem i'll write..
Gejoe

[benjamin20]

this belongs in the hardware section. mabye even the newbie section.

[GEJOE DANIEL]

In the "Readme" text :


1. Install Fedora Core 3. (Currently only FC3 can be installed on 965 demo board.)

2. Download Linux kernel 2.6.9 or latter version from http://www.kernel.org. The follwing examples are based on linux-2.6.9.

3. copy the kernel source to the location /usr/src/linux-2.6.9.

4. cp sis190.c /usr/src/linux-2.6.9/drivers/net

5. Edit the file "/usr/src/linux-2.6.9/drivers/net/Kconfig".
a. Serach for the string "config SIS900"
b. Add the following item below the item of SIS190.

config SIS190
tristate "SiS 191/190 PCI Gigabit/Fast Ethernet Adapter support"
depends on NET_PCI && PCI
select CRC32
---help---
Say Y here if you have a SiS 191/190 PCI Gigabit/Fast Ethernet adapter.

To compile this driver as a module, choose M here: the module
will be called sis190. This is recommended.

6. Edit the file "/usr/src/linux-2.6.9/drivers/net/Makefile".
a. Search for the string "obj-$(CONFIG_SIS900) += sis900.o".
b. Insert "obj-$(CONFIG_SIS190) += sis190.o" to next line.

7. cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.9

8. Input the command 'make menuconfig'. Then the Linux Kernel configuration menu will be popped.
a. Select "Device Drivers -->", "Networking support -->", "Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit) -->".
b. Goto the item "SiS191/190 PCI Gigabit/Fast Ethernet Adapter support".
c. Press space key to make this item marked with <M>.
d. Save and exit the kernel configuration menu.

9. Make kernel and modules. Input the command 'make bzImage modules modules_install install'.

10. Reboot and Select the boot item "2.6.9".


//** Probe sis190 module **//

1. Input the command 'rmmod sis190'.

2. Input the command 'modprobe sis190'.

3. Input the command 'ifconfig eth0 <ip_addr>'.
a. <ip_addr> is the IP address of sis190.
b. example: 'ifconfig eth0 192.168.209.1'.



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As mentioned above i downloaded the kernel 2.6.9 and copied it under usr/src.Then when i was trying to copy the Sis190.c file to the destination (Step 4 from the beginning)described above the error:"Not a directory" was displayed.
What should i do??
or is it the problem of theconfiguration of the network..
I'am hereby posting the output of dmesg and ifconfig -a in my distro..

[GEJOE DANIEL]

the problem is being discussed in

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/topic-53789.html
help me there and close in the session here....