-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 27 March 2003 03:18 pm, Douglas, Stuart wrote: > My situation is this, I'm using some HighPoint Rocket133 IDE controller > cards to support larger HDDs on some systems but the only RH8 driver is > compiled for the initial kernel release. The vendor can't give me any > useful information as to when I might expect a driver that is compiled > for the latest kernel so I thought I'd look into doing it myself. > Being a total Linux noob, am I asking the equivalent of how to perform > brain surgery, or is it actually not too difficult?
If the driver source code is availble, it shouldn't be very hard. It appears the source is available for the Rocket133 at: http://www.highpoint-tech.com/hpt302-opensource-v10.tgz You'll have to verify that this is the correct file. The drivers I found are listed here: http://www.highpoint-tech.com/drivers.htm Once you have the correct file downloaded... make a temporary directory, I used 'highpoint'. $ mkdir highpoint Move the driver archive to the new directory. $ mv hpt302-opensource-v10.tgz highpoint cd to the directory $ cd highpoint Extract the archive $ tar -xvzf hpt302-opensource-v10.tgz Edit the Makefile, and fix the define for KERNELDIR. Currently, it is probably defined as KERNELDIR=/usr/src/linux (Which is wrong) It should be defined as: KERNELDIR=/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build (KERNELDIR=/usr/src/linux-2.4 would work as well, but the above is more correct) You need to have the kernel-source rpm package installed that matches your running kernel. For example, I have: $ rpm -q kernel kernel-source kernel-2.4.18-27.8.0 kernel-source-2.4.18-27.8.0 Once you have done all that, you can build the driver with $ make Once it has finished compiling, the .o file(s) need to be copied someplace suitable in /lib/modules/{version}/kernel/drivers/(ide perhaps?) There are instructions in the readme.txt file for loading the drivers. Hope that helps, - -- - -Michael pgp key: http://www.tuxfan.homeip.net:8080/gpgkey.txt Red Hat Linux 7.{2,3}|8.0 in 8M of RAM: http://www.rule-project.org/ - -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+g4NKn/07WoAb/SsRAhjqAJwJN6FjRjjpIxrHWk3OvgDWj8MS7gCeIgoo M9KH7lkAzV0w7sAzc2NmCZg= =Ufkn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
