[laptop-discuss] Ethernet & compiler Catch-22 on snv_86_rc3

[Albert Lee]

On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 08:10 -0700, Reginald Beardsley wrote:
> How do I get  a working compiler w/o having a working ethernet connection?    Or without a working compiler, how can I get an ethernet driver for the Nvidia GeForce 7000M / nForce 610M so I can make ethernet work?
> 
> Installing Studio 12 from CD doesn't install the standard C headers which leaves me no way to compile the nfo driver for the Nvidia ethernet chipset.  Compiling on U5 produces relocation errors when I move the object  to snv_86.
> 
> Why were  the BSD license Murayama  drivers  not included?  They are needed by quite a few laptops.
> 

This is something to raise on drivers-discuss, but there just seems to
be a lack of manpower to handle all the integration issues. =\

> In any event, there needs to be a sneaker net way install new device drivers.  Depending on a working ethernet connection doesn't work very well.


For the time being, here are most of Masa-san's network drivers in SVR4
package form, built for i386/amd64 from the SFEnicdrv package:
http://trisk.acm.jhu.edu/SFE/SFEnicdrv/

-Albert