Tinycore 8 and lan

[Max.irkut]

Hello
I have TinyCore8 and PC (on MB Gigabyte H410M H v3/rev1.3). OS not found LAN. Help me installthe driver. I know that Lan it's INTEL GbE. Dowloaded Intel driver for Linux OS. But if I read "Readme" on this driver, I see: "4. Compile the driver module:  # make install"

Tiny core 8 don't know command "make". If I'll write in term "make install" - OS will answer "-sh: make: not found". What should I do?

[Rich]

Hi Max.irkut
You need to install the compiler package:

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tce-load -wi compiletc

[Max.irkut]

Thank you very much.

But. my tinycore swears:

"Kernel header files not in any of the expected lication. Install the apportoriate kernel develope package, kernek-devel, for building kernel modules and try again." 

[curaga]

Try a newer TC? That's a 2021 mobo, TC 8 is really old.

[Max.irkut]

I can't to use newer TC. I know that TC-8 it's VERY OLD. I have programm product, which is based on TC-8.   

[Juanito]

Did you make a symlink to the prepared kernel source like this (for example):

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cd /lib/modules/4.8.17-tinycore
sudo ln -s /usr/src/linux-4.8.17 build

[Rich]

Hi Max.irkut
It's possible the kernel already supports your network card. The kernel config file shows these are enabled:

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CONFIG_I40E=m
CONFIG_I40EVF=m
Install  pciutils.tcz:

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tce-load -wi pciutilsThen run:

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lspci -nn > lspci.txtAttach the file  lspci.txt  to your next post so we can see what kind of hardware is involved.
Also, run:

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dmesg > dmesg.txtAttach the file  dmesg.txt  to your next post so we can see what the kernel is doing.

[Max.irkut]

What do this command do?

CONFIG_I40E=m
CONFIG_I40EVF=m

[Juanito]

It means I40E and I40EVF will be compiled as kernel modules.

[Max.irkut]

Now in my PC has installed two LAN: int Intel GbE (maybe on i219-v chip) and discrete RTL controller. RTL is working.

[Rich]

Hi Max.irkut
Your  dmesg  attachment is riddled with warnings and errors. It also shows you are not booting an officially
released Tinycore kernel version:

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Linux version 4.14.62-tinycore (root@csi-builder-template) (gcc version 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-44) (GCC)) #1 SMP Mon Oct 11 20:04:44 MSK 2021
Tinycore 8 uses kernel 4.8.17.  Your kernel version 4.14.62 does not match anything we have released.

Your Intel network device is detected, but your kernel doesn't know what to do with it.

[Max.irkut]

It's not very good 

[Max.irkut]

What can you advise in this situation?

[Juanito]

Install the official version of Tinycorelinux from here:

32-bit http://tinycorelinux.net/13.x/x86/release/
64-bit http://tinycorelinux.net/13.x/x86_64/release/

[Max.irkut]

How to update kernel TC?