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How do I add to Mandrake 10.0's drivers list?


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My NIC's driver is not listed by Mandrake 10.0 so I can't choose it but it is in the modules,drivers folder, how do I add it to the list so I can tell Mandrake to use it ?

 

Its called "idt77252.o.gz" the NIC is listed as idt77252...even though its a 3Com ADSL PCI lan/rfc1483 aka 3cp3617...I think the "idt77" etc is the controller chip

 

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I copied idt77252.ko.gz into my temp dir so as not to risk damaging the original

 

"insmod" returns:

[root@localhost tmp]# insmod idt77252.ko.gz

insmod: error inserting 'idt77252.ko.gz': -1 Invalid module format

 

and after I un'gzip' it

[root@localhost tmp]# insmod idt77252.ko

insmod: error inserting 'idt77252.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in module

 

"modprobe" can't even see it:

[root@localhost net]# modprobe idt77252.ko.gz

FATAL: Module idt77252.ko.gz not found.

 

[root@localhost tmp]# modprobe idt77252.ko

FATAL: Module idt77252.ko not found.

 

I'm thinking this module is corrupt,or am I doing something wrong?

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You shouldn't mention .gz when you give the modprobe command :). Modprobe is looking for the module in /lib/modules/kerneletcetc where the module is called idt77252.ko.

 

Try depmod -ae (as root). Then try again. However, this error : insmod: error inserting 'idt77252.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in module usually means that the module you're trying to install doesn't fit your kernel (kernel is older. newer etc etc).

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