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Re: Rocket Port ISA card and LINUX



I installed the ISA RocketPort card on a debian 1.2.8 machine with no
problems at all. I had built a kernel first.


John Foster

On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:

>    Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 14:49:04 -0500
>    From: Lauralyn Gorham <lauralyng@comtrol.com>
> 
>    Hi Ted.  I'm going to be installing the 2.0.01 Debian Linux here shortly,
>    in hope to find autoconfig.h file.  Our UK office has a customer that seems
>    to be missing it, and it causes the driver install to fail?  do you know
>    what it's use if for and where to get it?
> 
> It's from the kernel include files, and it indicates that the
> compilation environment isn't set up properly.
> 
> I don't know enough about the debian distribution to know whether or not
> all of the include files (including the kernel include files) are
> present as part of the default compilation environment or not.
> Depending how the Debian has set things up, the user might have to get a
> copy of the kernel sources and build a kernel before they can build the
> Rocketport driver.  (This isn't necessary for Redhat, since their kernel
> include package --- which is mandatory if you install the C compiler ---
> has a fully configured set of kernel include files that match the kernel
> which they install.)
> 
> I've cc'ed this message to debian-users@lists.debian.org, in hopes that
> someone there can help shed light on this issue.  Thanks!!
> 
> 						- Ted
> 
>    >2) Linux with Kernal release 2.0.21
>    >
>    >Their customer has a problem installing the driver. ( He downloaded the 
>    >latest release from FTP site).
>    >
>    >The problem occurs during the recompile stage of the installation 
>    >(step number 3 in our install guide) The installation fails with a
>    >
>    >autoconfig.h not found message.
> 
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