VIA K8T800 Drivers for AMD64 Chips on SuSE Linux ?

phpdog

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HI ,

I just installed SuSE 9.1 Pro on my new AMD 64 3200+ Socket 939 system .

I have an Abit AV8 3rd Eye motherboard and cant get the Gigabit ethernet to work ?


Has anyone else have this combination , and have it running ?

If you have , Please tell me how to get the LAN to work ;)

Ive downloaded the K8T800 Chipset driver for the VT8237 southbridge for the LAN , i dont know if thats the right driver , anyway i cant get it installed , dont understand what it wants me to do ?


Installation


Please enter the following commands at the UNIX prompt. Remember, UNIX is
case sensitive.

1) Create a temporary directory:
mkdir /temp

2) Change to the temporary directory:
cd /temp

3) Copy driver (rhinefet.tgz) from DOS disk, (mcopy below is one tool in
mtools, if you didn't install mtools, you can type
'mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt' and use 'cp /mnt/rhinefet.tgz /temp'
command to copy the driver to the temporary directory):
mcopy a:rhinefet.tgz .

4) untar the archive file:
tar xzvf rhinefet.tgz
cd rhinefet

5) Compile the driver source files and it will generate rhinefet.o, and
copy it to correct driver installation path (The installation directory
is different in different kernel versions. In 2.4.x/2.6.x kernel, the path
is /lib/modules/KERNEL_VERSION/kernel/drivers/net/, and in 2.2.x kernel,
the path is /lib/modules/KERNEL_VERSION/net/, the KERNEL_VERSION (see
above) means the kernel version of your Linux distribution. If you don't
know your kernel version , please run 'uname -r' command in command
line. The kernel version will look like '2.2.16', '2.4.2-2smp' etc.) :
make install

6) Check configuration file (/etc/modules.conf or /etc/conf.modules or
/etc/modprobe.conf, it depends on your Linux distribution) for loading
kernel modules. Make sure the first line below is appeared in the
configuration file, where # is the interface number (eg: alias eth0
rhinefet). If you need to set the driver options, below second line is
an example to set the NIC to 100Mbps fullduplex mode (remember to unmark
the line if it is put in the configuration file).
alias eth# rhinefet
#options eth# speed_duplex=2

7) Reboot now:
shutdown -r now

8) Install your driver module (If the driver module is in the wrong place,
an error message will appear, and say that can't find the driver
module):
insmod rhinefet.o

9) Use ifconfig command to assign the IP address, where # is network
interface number:
ifconfig eth# <IP>

10) Check the interface works:
ping <remote_host_IP>

Remove intermediate files
=========================
Please enter the following command to remove intermediate files generated
during the driver compilation:
make clean


Ive never installed a Driver like this before as im quite new to Linux :confused: