 | | | network and sound drivers on Dell Dimension 4600 | network and sound drivers on Dell Dimension 4600 2003-08-28 - By Greg Goldstein
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I have a new Dell Dimension 4600 P4 3GHz and I installed RH 8.0. I noticed
that neither the network card nor sound card were recognised on boot
sequence, and I searched around and discovered that there is new Intel
hardware (a motherbd with integrated audio and NIC) that requires special
drivers (www.intel.com/design/motherbd/linux/)
I followed the install instructions for the network card driver exactly:
Move the base driver tar file (pro100_pro1000.tar.gz) to /usr/local/src/e1000.
Untar/unzip it, then
Untar/unzip archive:
tar xvf e1000-5.0.43.tar
Change to the driver src directory:
cd e1000-x.x.x/src/
Compile the driver module:
make install
[root@(protected) LINUX_Pro1000]# cd e1000-5.0.43/src/
[root@(protected) src]# make install
Makefile:81: *** Linux kernel source not found. Stop.
Reading more documentation on the driver, I then found this:
"Selecting workstation installation and ensuring development tools for kernel
source are installed will ensure etc". Problem is, I selected personal
installation. Is this the only network driver that makes
this requirement?
To me (lacking expertise), this looks like re-installation, however I would
appreciate to know if there are alternatives in this case.
many thanks
Greg
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