Dear Mr Howarth, Firstly, may I thank you for going to so much trouble on my behalf, I really do appreciate all of this! You were quite right, I was using kernel 2.6.9-prep. Therefore think I am better to start with a new downloaded kernel. Please give me a little time to do this when I have time available. Best wishes & thanks, Malcolm Candlish. >> You are probably running kernel 2.6.9-1.667 but have built modules for >> kernel 2.6.9-prep. Why not follow the instructions at >> http://crab-lab.zool.ohiou.edu/kevin/kernel-compilation-tutorial-en/ to >> build yourself a full new kernel with this module included? Or follow >> the instructions in the release notes to build the module out-of- tree? Elaborating on this, here's how I built the dmx3191d.ko module using the out-of-tree method. 1. Grab the source for the module: (a) $ rpm -ivh ../kernel-2.6.10-1.760_FC3.src.rpm [ I have a local RPM build area ~/BUILD so I don't need to do this as root ] (b) $ cd ~/BUILD/SPECS/ (c) $ rpmbuild -bp --target i686 kernel-2.6.spec [ you'll need to change the target to x86_64 ] (d) $ mkdir ~/temp; cd ~/temp (e) Copy the following files from ~/BUILD/BUILD/kernel-2.6.10/linux-2.6.10/drivers/scsi to ~/temp: dmx3191d.c scsi.h NCR5380.c NCR5380.h scsi_obsolete.h scsi_typedefs.h (FWIW, I arrived at this list of files by first copying just the dmx3191d.c file and attempting the "Build module" phase below until no more errors were found when building the module) 2. Create a Makefile for the module in ~/temp. Appropriate Makefile is attached. This is basically the one suggested in the FC3 release notes, with an "install" section added to put the module in the right place. 3. Build module Just run "make" in the ~/temp directory: $ make make -C /lib/modules/2.6.10-1.760_FC3/build SUBDIRS=/nis-home/phowarth/temp modules make[1]: Entering directory `/lib/modules/2.6.10-1.760_FC3/build' CC [M] /nis-home/phowarth/temp/dmx3191d.o /nis-home/phowarth/temp/NCR5380.c:628: warning: 'NCR5380_print_options' defined but not used /nis-home/phowarth/temp/NCR5380.c:351: warning: 'phases' defined but not used /nis-home/phowarth/temp/NCR5380.c:571: warning: 'NCR5380_probe_irq' defined but not used Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST CC /nis-home/phowarth/temp/dmx3191d.mod.o LD [M] /nis-home/phowarth/temp/dmx3191d.ko make[1]: Leaving directory `/lib/modules/2.6.10-1.760_FC3/build' 4. Install module $ su # make install make -C /lib/modules/2.6.10-1.760_FC3/build SUBDIRS=/nis-home/phowarth/temp modules_install make[1]: Entering directory `/lib/modules/2.6.10-1.760_FC3/build' INSTALL /nis-home/phowarth/temp/dmx3191d.ko make[1]: Leaving directory `/lib/modules/2.6.10-1.760_FC3/build' # /sbin/depmod -a 5. Load module At this point, "modprobe dmx3191d" should work. Paul. -------------- next part -------------- obj-m := dmx3191d.o KDIR := /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build PWD := $(shell pwd) default: $(MAKE) -C $(KDIR) SUBDIRS=$(PWD) modules install: dmx3191d.ko $(MAKE) -C $(KDIR) SUBDIRS=$(PWD) modules_install strip -g /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/extra/dmx3191d.ko ------------------------------ -- Malcolm Candlish <bm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
