David, Good questions. I'm trying to use an old PII PC as an FTP server and am using a HighPoint Rocket133 ATA controller to host the hard drives (getting around the BIOS limitations of this old box). HighPoint has a RH8 driver, however it's only compiled for the 2.4.18-14 kernel and I want to upgrade.
I used the rpm -U kernel-2.4.18-27.8.0.i386.rpm command to do the kernel upgrade, which must be why it errors upon not finding the driver module. You bring up a good point, why can't I just use the --force switch to shove the kernel upgrade through. Perhaps I can. I just posted another idea on how I can get around this (do a Linux install onto a drive controlled by the motherboard, upgrade the kernel, compile the driver, put the controller & drives in with the old kernel installed, manually apply the changes to make the new driver avaible, upgrade the kernel). Think I'll try your idea first...force the install and then see if I can't, in fact, now compile the driver. Thanks, and stay tuned... Stuart > -----Original Message----- > From: David Hollister [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 9:36 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: how difficult is compiling a driver? > > > On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 07:18, Douglas, Stuart wrote: > > Thanks again, Mike, but I think this IS a catch-22... > > > > It seems I can't make the module without the kernel, and I > can't install > > the kernel without the module. > > > > I'm running on kernel 2.4-18-14 and tried making the module > after only > > installing the most recent kernel-source package > (2.4.18-27.8.0), but it > > runs off this long litany of error messages. I then tried > installing > > the most recent kernel package (2.4.18-27.8.0), thinking I > could then > > successfully make the new module before rebooting, but the > kernel install > > errors out due to the lacking module. > > > > Unless you have some more brilliance to share with me, I > think I'm done > > and will have to wait on the vendor to release the properly compiled > > driver. > > > > Thanks for all your help, regardless of how doomed or not I am. > > > > Stuart > > I don't understand why the kernel would have a dependency on > a module. > I forget what kind of module it is you want to build. Are you > installing the kernel source from an RPM? If the module is the only > problem, why not just "rpm -i --force ..."? > > -- > David Hollister > Furthurnet - Free, legal P2P - share the tunes: http://furthurnet.org > > > > -- > redhat-list mailing list > unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
