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**sas3** · Dec 04, 2009, 04:55 AM

Re: need help installing network on my kubuntu

I am not familiar with your particular drivers, but you should probably patch your source files first (i.e., before you try to compile them).
That said, there could be more than one problem here...

**lexloopor** · Dec 04, 2009, 06:46 AM

Re: need help installing network on my kubuntu

thanks sas3 ... i assume that you are talking about the option 2 in my installer that says generate patch
Ill try it and i will let you know... but the readme file explains step by step and shows generating drivers before the patch process... i found an insane number of people in internet who has this problem with this device so if i can solve it ill make a for-dummies-step-by-step-tutorial
again thanks for your answer

**lexloopor** · Dec 04, 2009, 12:41 PM

Re: need help installing network on my kubuntu

BTW... i could make the installer "work" and now i dont get the "No such file or directory" messages of step #1 by installing some development kits from the kubuntu Dvd
but i still get this message at the end

Check modpost availability (not available) [ warn ]

and also the same warning saying that the utility is not available so i decided to avoid this warning and go on and make the patch. Then did a "make xconfig" as the installation guide said and i selected the driver from the driver list bla bla bla...
evrything seems to work fine and then when i boot with my new kernel and i check in the terminal for this driver by "sudo modprobe sk98lin" i get a fatal error so theres no driver loaded...
im still thinking that this is caused for the warning in the begining... any ideas

**pompos** · Dec 08, 2009, 04:30 PM

Re: need help installing network on my kubuntu

I have the same problem

I guess the problem is that the installation script looks at the wrong location for the kernel sources. Unfortunately, I don't know how to convince it to look at a different location. However, with a symbolic link it was possible

like form /usr/src/linux (I created that also with a symbolic link

) to /lib/modules/##your-kernel-version##-generic/source/

Then a IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=1 sudo ./install.sh was needed to convince the script to compile the driver.

However, I still have a slight problem. I somehow can not convice Kubuntu 9.10 to not load the sky2 driver

**lexloopor** · Dec 08, 2009, 09:21 PM

Re: need help installing network on my kubuntu

pompos: thanks for writing, it seems that you know much more than me about this (its not too hard) ... ill try to do this that you say, if you can fix the problem please let me know...
thanks!

**pompos** · Dec 09, 2009, 04:13 AM

Re: need help installing network on my kubuntu

Originally posted by lexloopor

pompos: thanks for writing, it seems that you know much more than me about this (its not too hard) ... ill try to do this that you say, if you can fix the problem please let me know...
thanks!

Unfortunately, till now, I am not able to get the sk98lin driver working

However, to complete what I did to get the installation script working... I should add the following to make it more clear. But beware... It's again just from memory. If you have a problem state it so that I can alter those steps or rather correct them.

1. install the linux-source
2. cd /usr/src/
3. sudo tar jxvf linux-source-##THE_NEWEST_VERSION##.tar.bz2
4. sudo ln -s linux-source-##THE_NEWEST_VERSION## linux
5. sudo ln -s /usr/src/linux /lib/modules/##your-kernel-version##-generic/source/
6. cd TO_YOUR_DRIVER_FOLDER
7. sudo -s
8. export IGNORE_CC_MISMATCH=1
9. ./install.sh
10. In the installation process I always used the 1st choice (when I had one

) If I remember correctly they were "Install" and "Do nothing". However, the last choice might be the reason for my current problem.
11. I am stuck here

**lexloopor** · Dec 09, 2009, 06:08 AM

Re: need help installing network on my kubuntu

thanks... ill give it a try... in my case i always used the option 3 "erase" (recommended by the installer), maybe im saying something useless but have you tried to deactivate the sky2 driver when you are in the step of "make xconfig" ?

**pompos** · Dec 09, 2009, 08:51 AM

Re: need help installing network on my kubuntu

Finally, I got it working

But it's still a very ugly way of doing so

First of all... I created a file called blacklist-sky2 in /etc/modprobe.d/ with no content and added sk98lin to /etc/modules. Unfortunately, the sky2 driver still got loaded and not the new from marvell.

In a post of the ubuntuforums one suggest the following:

1. add

Code:

# PCI device 0x11AB:0x4320 (sk98lin)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="##YOUR MAC ADDRESS##", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0"

to /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules.
2. add

Code:

rmmod sky2
rmmod sk98lin
modprobe sk98lin
/etc/init.d/networking restart

to /etc/rc.localbefore the line containing exit 0.
Now, the driver was kind of properly loaded

However, somehow the MAC address was not set. Thus:
4. run sudo ifconfig eth0 hw ether ##YOUR MAC ADDRESS##. It is probably a good idea (in the sense of keep being lazy

) to add this line (without sudo) to the /etc/rc.local as well.

**lexloopor** · Dec 09, 2009, 08:58 AM

Re: need help installing network on my kubuntu

pompos: is it too much asking if you do a step-by-step list of how to install it? i didnt get the last message that you sent and regarding the amount of people with this issue that i found it would be great to have it
thanks and congratulations! you did the impossible!!!!

**pompos** · Dec 11, 2009, 07:32 AM

Re: need help installing network on my kubuntu

What don't you get?

I still have problems with the driver... it's keep crashing... even more often than this crappy sky2

**lexloopor** · Dec 11, 2009, 07:56 AM

Re: need help installing network on my kubuntu

i though you made it work... not nicely but work... still unusable?
regards

**BosseJ** · Dec 12, 2009, 11:56 AM

Re: need help installing network on my kubuntu

With regard to blocking the sky2 driver, maybe adding "blacklist sky2" to the /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf could help?

**pompos** · Dec 13, 2009, 07:44 AM

Re: need help installing network on my kubuntu

Originally posted by lexloopor

i though you made it work... not nicely but work... still unusable?
regards

I made the driver work but not stable... however, from not working at all to working unstable is already a big process. Maybe the driver works in combination with a different chip rockstable. As you do not have the Marvell Yukon 88E8056 (as I do), you might have more luck

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