Dear Fedora List, I posted a couple of weeks ago regarding my attempts to get ftape working on Fedora Core 3, since it no longer comes as a pre-compiled kernel module. The suggestion at that time was to follow the directions in the release notes for compiling modules. I've finally gotten back to working on this project. Actually I had stumbled on the release notes before I posted but wasn't sure how to apply them to the task at hand. Here is the question I have. Quoting from the release notes, quote(( "For example, to build the foo.ko module, create the following file (named Makefile) in the directory containing the foo.c file: obj-m := foo.o KDIR := /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build PWD := $(shell pwd) default: $(MAKE) -C $(KDIR) SUBDIRS=$(PWD) modules Issue the make command to build the foo.ko module." )) #end quote Now, there are three modules that I need, ftape.ko, zftape.ko, and zft-compressor.ko. The source files for these are in three directories under the drivers tree: lowlevel, zftape, and compressor. Each directory has several .c and .h files as well as a Makefile, but there is no file named ftape.c, zftape.c, or zft_compressor.c. The object module is created by linking several files together. So my question is, what do I substitute for "foo.o" in the above makefile? My strategy is going to be 1) Copy all .c and .h files to a temp directory. 2) Create Makefile as above. 3) make. 4) Copy *.ko modules to appropriate directory in /lib/modules. I would appreciate any help anyone can give, and perhaps it is apparent that I need a little more handholding than someone who writes their own makefiles before breakfast. I guess I'm also a little peeved that as a user I have to go through this, since the floppy tape hardware used to be well-supported under Red Hat and Fedora releases. Thanks in advance. Stephen Childress