https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=418219
User frank_alexa@hotmail.com added comment
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=418219#c2
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Status|NEEDINFO |RESOLVED
Info Provider|frank_alexa@hotmail.com |
Priority|P5 - None |P4 - Low
Resolution| |FIXED
--- Comment #2 from frank alexa 2008-09-04 02:12:57 MDT ---
Hi,
not really correct: I have one WLAN-connection (wlan0), 1 interneal
network-card (not found) and one external USB-network-card (eth0). The last one
was used to update the software and should be only temporarily added.
The problem was, that openSuse won't install (and load) the driver for the
Agere ET131x-(internal-)card. The other both were detected during startup. And
the external USB-Card pings the Router (192.168.178.1)
Ok, finally I found the solution: openSuse won't install the driver during the
installation procedure like Ubuntu will do. So I searched the internet and
found the everywhere mentioned russian site with the driver in source-code as
well as a ".noarch" and a ".rpm" version. But the ".noarch" install the
".o"-driver instead of the ".ko" and the rpm-package installs it into a
different directory where the kernel won't find the driver. Sorry but I also
didn't find the driver: When trying to install a 2nd time, I got an error
message which says that the driver is still installed.
But nevertheless I read in a magazine (c't special, a german magazine), that
openSuse won't install as default no (basic) environment for compiling the
kernel. So everytime when I try "make" and "make modules_install", I got an
error message, the bash can't "resolve" the make or something similiar. After
installing the basic development environment for compiling and debugging the
kernel (yast2 - software-installation with the "scheme"-view), the make works
fine and compiles the ET131x-driver and after "make modules_install" the driver
has been found at the correct place. With modinfo I saw it was loaded, and with
modprobe I added it to the kernel.
The main problem was that nearly nowhere was written, that I have to install an
additional package which makes the "make" work. I looked a long time for it.
But this was the first bigger experience I made with Linux, and I like it. It's
new and interesting, and you can do a lot with the OS. Now I'm having 3 OS's:
openSuse 11.0, Ubuntu 8.04 and Xp as backup-OS. Thanks guys for your help as
well as for the Linux itself and especially the openSuse!
Frank
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