Help required installing ethernet driver

[Kriegar]

Please can anybody help, as I'm extremely new to linux and I'm having trouble installing an ethernet driver.

The driver in question is for the attansic L1 gigabit LAN on an asus mobo(P5L 1394). I'm using debian etch 4.0r0 and whilst a linux driver was supplied on the mobo driver disk, the instructions (if you can call them that) applied to redhat and suse with commands such as rpm -build which weren't recognised in the debian bash. (uname -r = 2.6.18-4-686)

Anyway after searching the internet for a compiled driver i found this tar.gz file:

AtL1Linux_v1.0.41.0.tar.gz

with the following instructions

copy AtL1Linux_v1.0.41.0.tar.gz to home folder

tar xzvf AtL1Linux_v1.0.41.0.tar.gz

cd AtL1Linux_v1.0.41.0.tar.gz/src

su +password
#make install

at this point i had error: makefile65*** linux kernel source not found.stop

so to load the kernel source code i followed some further instructions i found on the net which said put the etch image dvd in the drive
followed by

apt-get install linux-source-2.6.18
cd to usr/src
tar jxvf linux-source-2.6.18.tar.bz2
and then ln -s linux-source-2.6.18.linux

and then retry make install from AtL1Linux_v1.0.41.0.tar.gz/src

as you can see from this screen dump i still get error 65

See this link

Like i say i'm new to bash so everything i've written above might as well be in swahili, so i'd appreciate any replies to be from the Ladybird book of linux iif possible.

Thanks in anticipation

[Dapper Dan]

It appears to me you did not leave a space between linux-source-2.6.18. and linux. It's hard to know from a screen shot, but that's what it looks like. If that is the case, and you actually did ln -s linux-source-2.6.18.linux, you are not making the necessary symlink to 'linux.' If I'm right, it should be rather:

ln -s linux-source-2.6.18. linux

Is there a period after 18? If so, include it, or type it in however it actually appears. Notice there is a space between 2.6.18. and 'linux.' After doing the above command, see if 'linux' is indeed pointing back to the kernel source. Do this by going:

ls -l linux

It should say if it is pointing back to the source. Then try to continue with the directions. I hope I'm right. It's hard to tell from a picture.

[Ryanboy]

Perhaps you need to install the linux-headers-2.6.18 package that is appropriate for you architecture. Seem to remember doing the same when I was building the LAN driver for my ASUS mobo.

Ryan

[Dapper Dan]

Here's another post on the Debian forums with someone with the exact same problem.

Interestingly, a respondent came to the same conclusion I did, so we are either both right or both wrong... Did this come from directions, and you are copying them exactly. If so, it has been my experience that some companies have no clue about Linux commands and will make all sorts of rediculous typos that will make you crazy.