[vortex] building netdrivers on Linux/X86

Donald Becker becker@scyld.com
Thu Sep 19 13:17:00 2002


On Thu, 19 Sep 2002, George Luft wrote:

> I am trying to install and build the netdrivers-3.1-1.src.rpm per the
> instructions on http://www.scyld.com/network/updates.html.
> 
> When I run `rpm -bb SPECS/netdriver*.spec' from /usr/src/redhat, 3c59x.c
> errors with the following:
> 
> `NETIF_MSG_MISC' undeclared

Please try

mkdir /tmp/netdrivers/
cd /tmp/netdrivers/
ncftp ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/netdrivers.tgz
tar xfvz netdrivers.tgz
make
make install


> I'm running RedHat 7.2 with 2.4.18 kernel.
> 
> It appears that NETIF_MSG_MISC is (conditionally) defined in kern_compat.h,

Yup, and I've had to change the condition.

[[ Yes, I should make a new SRPM... ]]

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