How can I make RPM driver from Windows Driver?

[hesam]

Hi everybody;
My laptop (Lenovo Y480) has only windows driver, in fedora 16 I do not have problem with all hardware except my LAN Card,
How can I make RMP driver from windows driver for an Ethernet LAN Card?

[stoat]

Originally Posted by hesam

My laptop (Lenovo Y480) has only windows driver...

How sure are you of that? It's uncommon for a wired NIC not to have a driver provided by the Linux kernel. Wireless drivers are a different matter, but I don't think I've seen what you want to do discussed often (or ever) here. But maybe so. I recommend that you take a moment to identify the Ethernet device and list the driver modules being loaded.

[droidhacker]

According to spec sheet, its;
Ethernet Gigabit ethernet, Atheros® AR8151B/AR8161A, PCIe x1

And here is the driver for it:
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/colla...networking/alx

[sidebrnz]

That's not a Windows driver, it's a Linux driver. Download the tarball and follow the instructions as given on the site.

[stoat]

If that driver really is the one that the OP needs (and I don't know that), then it may already be included in the kernel. There has been some talk about it anyway. Maybe somebody here using a newer Fedora kernel can check.

[droidhacker]

Originally Posted by sidebrnz

That's not a Windows driver, it's a Linux driver. Download the tarball and follow the instructions as given on the site.

Your point? Wondoze driver is particularly useless since this isn't wondoze....

[sidebrnz]

Did you by any chance read the subject of this thread?