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Re: more install problems

Richard Lyons wrote:

On Wednesday 30 July 2003 19:54, Andrew McGuinness wrote:
[...]


The cause of the errors was that linux/version.h was being included
from a 2.2 kernel, but linux/netdevice.h was being include from a
2.4 kernel.



Thanks Andrew.

We _may_ be getting somewhere.

I have two version.h files:
   /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4/include/linux/version.h
   /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4/include/pcmcia/version.h

diff says:
   1,3c1,4
   < #define UTS_RELEASE "2.4.18-bf2.4"
   < #define LINUX_VERSION_CODE 132114
   < #define KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) (((a) << 16) + ((b) << 8) + (c))
   ---
   > /* version.h 1.94 2000/10/03 17:55:48 (David Hinds) */
> > #define CS_RELEASE "3.1.22" 
   > #define CS_RELEASE_CODE 0x3116
Should I rename one of them for the compile? or symlink one location to the other having renamed the unwanted one? 
I have only one netdevice.h:
   /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.18-bf2.4/include/linux/netdevice.h

Does that make sense?


include/pcmcia/version.h isn't a problem.
The errors you quoted from you compile are in code that shouldn't be compiled unless LINUX_VERSION_CODE indicates a 2.2 kernel, at least in the rtl8139.c I picked up from scyld.com.
So either, a different LINUX_VERSION_CODE is being picked up from somewhere else, or the rtl8139.c you have been provided is so old or hacked up that it only supports 2.2 kernels. 

Options for continuing:
a) Try to go back completely to 2.2 and compile with that. I don't really recommend that, as being stuck with 2.2 kernel will hold you back on other things.
b) Find out where the rtl8139.c on your floppy disk came from. If it is patched or modified by the manufacturer, try to find if they have a newer version. If the changelog doesn't suggest it has been modified by anyone but Donald Becker, go to http://www.scyld.com/network/rtl8139.html and follow the instructoins there. (That means downloading the four files rtl8139.c kern_compat.h pci_scan.h, pci_scan.c and doing roughly what you've been doing).
If that sounds a bit much, I'll try compiling it all for you tonight or Saturday morning. I'm getting kind of hooked on this problem.
It might help if you mail the rtl8139.c you have to me (I don't think it's of much value to the list generally) 

--
Andrew

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