=FD88E8001 Gigabit Lan PCI Controller

Peter Garrett peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au
Sun Jan 15 23:04:35 UTC 2006


On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 17:34:40 -0500
Daniel Anderson <kd4jdl1 at verizon.net> wrote:

> Thanks, I'll try that. Is a compiler installed by default? I'll have to
> download with Mandriva and install manually, since the network isn't
> working with Ubuntu.

Install the build-essential   package, which is on the Ubuntu Cd, if I
remember correctly. It will pull in compilers, make, etc for you.

I'm not certain that you need the full kernel source to compile a driver -
it may be sufficient to install  linux-headers-$(uname -r)

Peter





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