Hi Paul, Thanks for the help. I got everything compiled and repacked, but when I boot from the new CD it complains about missing symbols. Here is what I did: Installed regular FC1 from regular FC1 install CD (version 2.4.22-1.2115). My installation contains the development packages and the kernel source package. Using this, I recompile the e1000 driver I downloaded from Intel and replaced the old e1000.o and added it into /etc/modules.conf When I reboot, network comes up and runs fine - both under the single-processor and the smp version of the kernel (for some reason it defaults to loading smp although it's onlty a single P4) I took the original boot.iso from the FC1 CD, replaced the e1000.o in modules.cgz, added the PCI IDs into pcitable and put it all back together and burnt the new CD. Booting from the new CD, it tries but fails to load my driver - it complains about unresolved symbols. I replaced the original vmlinuz with the vmlinuz I am booting from when I boot from the HD and burnt another CD, but no luck either. It is missing the following symbols: irq_stat netif_rx netif_receive_skb __netdev_watchdog skb_over_panic __dev_get_by_name softnet_data eth_type_trans mem_map __kfree_skb alloc_skb Any idea what I could do? Thanks, MARK > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Howarth > Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 12:12 AM > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > Subject: Re: Adding NIC drivers to FC1 install CD? > > > On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 21:46, Mark wrote: > > I just bought a Dell PowerEdge 750 and want to install > Fedora Core 1 on it. > > Everything seems to work fins so far, except I don't have > network, because > > FC1 doesn't have the right driver. > > It should not be a big problem since IBM apparently offers > Linux drivers for > > this mainboard. > > > > My question is this: once I am done compiling a driver that > works, is there > > a way to create my own FC1 install CD with this driver one > there, so that > > the installer is going to find the Network and install it > the same way as if > > it knew it all along? > > Or even better, add it to an FC1 boot CD, load the network > driver and then > > do the rest of the install over the network with a kickstart file? > > Yes, this is possible. You'll need to build an i586 driver for the > 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl kernel and add it to the moduleball in > your modified > boot.iso. If the driver module depends on any other modules, > you'll need > to know what those dependencies are, and you'll also need to know the > PCI ID for the network card so that anaconda can detect it. > > If you can build the module, find the dependencies and the PCI ID, the > rest is fairly straightforward and I can explain it later. > > Paul. > -- > Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
