Compiling driver fails, missing system headers.

Colin Law clanlaw at googlemail.com
Fri May 24 15:40:49 UTC 2013


On 24 May 2013 16:10,  <quiztli at lavabit.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have a computer running 12.04 LTS where I have to build the NIC
> (=network) driver. This is the information lspci reports about the
> hardware:
>
> 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM57788 Gigabit
> Ethernet PCIe (rev 01)
>         Subsystem: Dell XPS 8300
>         Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
>         Memory at fb100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
>         Capabilities: <access denied>
>         Kernel driver in use: tg3
>         Kernel modules: tg3

I would have thought that would be supported 'out of the box'.  In
fact it says it using the tg3 driver.  Are you sure you need to
compile it?

Colin




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