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20 4. Configuration of the Custom Kernel
If we want that the modular ethernet driverisloaded automagically,wehav e to create the file /etc/modutils/eth0
and then update /etc/modules.conf:
/etc/modutils/eth0:
alias eth0 eepro100 #kernel ethernet driver for EtherExpressPro/100
Updating /etc/modules.conf:
#> update−modules
4. 9. 1. Intel PRO/100 Adapter Base Driver
Intel offers an alternate driver for the PRO/100 ethernet controllers. It was only a little bit hard to find in that
corporate bloat of slowly,not completely or not at all loading graphics and scripts, since we did not knowthe
filename of the tar-ball we were looking for.The subsequent compilation and installation of this driveris, howev-
er,completely painless. Weonly have toremember to register the newmodule afterwards.
Compiling and installing the Intel EtherExpress100/Prodriver:
#> cd /usr/src
#> tar −xzf e100−2.1.15.tar.gz
#> cd e100−2.1.15/src
#> make clean
#> make install
/etc/modutils/eth0:
#alias eth0 eepro100 #kernel ethernet driver for EtherExpressPro/100
alias eth0 e100 #intel ethernet driver for EtherExpressPro/100
Note: In newer kernel versions (2.4.20), this driverisnow part of the kernel-source package and needs no longer
be installed separately.
4. 10. 802.11b Wireless Network
The 802.11b wireless network card shows up as an 1260:3873 (Harris Semiconductor) (rev1),but is in reality an
Actiontec 802MIP,which is supported by the linux-wlan Project.The corresponding Debian packages are avail-
able in the “unstable” (a.k.a. “sid”) distribution:
Debian packages for wlan-ng:
wireless−tools−25
linux−wlan−ng
linux−wlan−ng−modules−2.4.18
Due to a plethora of unmet dependencies it is not possible to just install these three binary packages on our
“woody” based system. Wehav e to compile the kernel modules as well as the support packages from source —
as task which we defer to the next chapter.
However, since our wireless router wants us to connect via DHCP,wehav e to configure the kernel for Packet
Socket and Socket Filtering:
Kernel configuration for DHCP:
—— Networking Options ——
yes Packet socket
yes Packet socket: mmaped IO
yes Socket Filtering