Fedora18在ASUSN6系列电脑上以太网卡驱动的安装

说下在Fedora 18下ASUS N6系列电脑上以太网卡驱动的安装过程。

电脑为ASUS N6系列，以太网卡的型号为Atheros AR8161/8165。

到此网卡的官方网站上未找到Linux下的驱动。

在网上搜索这个网卡驱动的安装，最后得到的结论是安装alx Ethernet driver。

alx Ethernet driver的网址如下：

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/collaborate/workgroups/networking/alx

alx Ethernet driver在网页中的下载地址如下：

https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/projects/backports/2013/03/04/compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u.tar.bz2

下载下来后，解压并进入到compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u文件夹。

下面是网页中的安装方法：

Install

To only compile and install the alx driver you can do:

./scripts/driver-select alx

make

sudo make install

先执行./scripts/driver-select alx，正常。

然后执行make，出现如下编译错误：

…compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u/include/linux/compat-3.7.h:118:59: error: redefinition of ‘nla_put_s8’
…
include/net/netlink.h:901:59: note: previous definition of ‘nla_put_s8’ was here
…
…compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u/include/linux/compat-3.7.h:129:59: error: redefinition of ‘nla_put_s16’
…
include/net/netlink.h:912:59: note: previous definition of ‘nla_put_s16’ was here
…
…compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u/include/linux/compat-3.7.h:140:59: error: redefinition of ‘nla_put_s32’
…
include/net/netlink.h:923:59: note: previous definition of ‘nla_put_s32’ was here
…
…compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u/include/linux/compat-3.7.h:151:59: error: redefinition of ‘nla_put_s64’
…
include/net/netlink.h:934:59: note: previous definition of ‘nla_put_s64’ was here
…
…compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u/include/linux/compat-3.7.h:160:59: error: redefinition of ‘nla_get_s32’
…
include/net/netlink.h:1058:59: note: previous definition of ‘nla_get_s32’ was here
…
…compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u/include/linux/compat-3.7.h:169:59: error: redefinition of ‘nla_get_s16’
…
include/net/netlink.h:1067:59: note: previous definition of ‘nla_get_s16’ was here
…
…compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u/include/linux/compat-3.7.h:178:58: error: redefinition of ‘nla_get_s8’
…
include/net/netlink.h:1076:58: note: previous definition of ‘nla_get_s8’ was here
…
…compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u/include/linux/compat-3.7.h:188:59: error: redefinition of ‘nla_get_s64’
…
include/net/netlink.h:1085:59: note: previous definition of ‘nla_get_s64’ was here
…compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u/compat/main.o] Error 1
…

先不急着上网上找解决办法，试着动手解决一下这个编译错误。

在文件夹compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u的include/net下，没有netlink.h这个文件。

在文件夹compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u中搜索netlink.h，未找到。

这时，估计netlink.h就是系统中自带的头文件了。

于是，到/usr下执行如下命令：

find ./ -iname netlink.h

发现了如下文件：

/usr/src/kernels/3.6.10-4.fc18.x86_64/include/net/netlink.h

这个文件的路径与编译错误中“include/net/netlink.h”这个路径一致。

打开并查看/usr/src/kernels/3.6.10-4.fc18.x86_64/include/net/netlink.h和compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u/include/linux/compat-3.7.h这两个文件，

发现编译错误所报的内容，在这两个文件中都有定义，

于是将compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u/include/linux/compat-3.7.h中重复定义的内容注释掉，

即将compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u/include/linux/compat-3.7.h中的112行到198行的内容注释掉。

再次make，编译通过。

执行su，输入root密码。

再执行make install，安装成功。

不重启我不知道怎么让网卡工作起来，于是我重启了。

重启后，网卡工作正常，自动获取到了IP，上网OK！

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