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How to install an alx Ethernet driver? (Linux Qualcomm Atheros alx Ethernet driver) Issues with make

EAAR-ITCOct 4 2015 — edited Oct 5 2015

Hello guys!

I had a related post regarding a driver for my Ethernet that could not start up on UEK , itś here on the forum : Oracle Linux UEK 3 doesnt start network eth0 on boot

At the end it redirected me to the following URL

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

I donwloaded it, I followed the instructions  it is saying to me that I had issues with a module make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.32-573.7.1.el6.x86_64/build: No such file or directory.  Stop.

I dont know what to do since I think the module is on the kernel , Any suggestions?

more info

[oracle@EAAR-G750JX-OL compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u]$ ls

code-metrics.txt  compat  config.mk  COPYING  drivers  enable-older-kernels  include  MAINTAINERS  Makefile  Makefile.bk  net  patches  README.md  scripts  udev

[oracle@EAAR-G750JX-OL compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u]$ sudo ./scripts/driver-select alx

Processing new driver-select request...

Backup exists: Makefile.bk

Backup exists: Makefile.bk

Backup exists: drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/Makefile.bk

Backup exists: drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/Makefile.bk

Backup exists: Makefile.bk

Backup exists: Makefile.bk

Backup exists: drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/Makefile.bk

[oracle@EAAR-G750JX-OL compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u]$ sudo make

make -C /lib/modules/2.6.32-573.7.1.el6.x86_64/build M=/home/oracle/Downloads/drv/compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u modules

make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.32-573.7.1.el6.x86_64/build: No such file or directory.  Stop.

make: *** [modules] Error 2

[oracle@EAAR-G750JX-OL compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u]$ sudo make install

Warning:

You may or may not need to update your initramfs, you should if

any of the modules installed are part of your initramfs. To add

support for your distribution to do this automatically send a

patch against ./scripts/update-initramfs. If your distribution does not require this

send a patch against the '/usr/bin/lsb_release -i -s': "Oracle Linux Server"

tag for your distribution to avoid this warning.

make -C /lib/modules/2.6.32-573.7.1.el6.x86_64/build M=/home/oracle/Downloads/drv/compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u modules

make: *** /lib/modules/2.6.32-573.7.1.el6.x86_64/build: No such file or directory.  Stop.

make: *** [modules] Error 2

[oracle@EAAR-G750JX-OL compat-drivers-2013-03-04-u]$

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