Re: Pb with TEKRAM SCSI PCI driver
FB wrote:
> First of all : I'm a Linux beginer
>
> I have got the file "dc395-141.tar.gz.tar"
> Decompressed it
> patch the kernel sources 2.4.18
> launch "make-kpkg"
> and got errors at the scsi driver compiling phase :
>
>
> make -C scsi modules
> make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/drivers/scsi'
> ld -m elf_i386 -r -o scsi_mod.o scsi.o hosts.o scsi_ioctl.o constants.o
> scsicam.o scsi_p
> roc.o scsi_error.o scsi_obsolete.o scsi_queue.o scsi_lib.o scsi_merge.o
> scsi_dma.o scsi_
> scan.o scsi_syms.o
> gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/include -Wall
> -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-
> trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common
> -pipe -mpreferred-st
> ack-boundary=2 -march=i386 -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -include
> /usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18
> /include/linux/modversions.h -DKBUILD_BASENAME=dc395x_trm -c -o
> dc395x_trm.o dc395x_trm.c
> In file included from dc395x_trm.c:260:
> dc395x_trm.h:68: parse error before `:'
> dc395x_trm.c: In function `DC395x_bios_param':
> dc395x_trm.c:2445: warning: implicit declaration of function
> `scsicam_bios_param_Rsmp_dee45ea1'
> dc395x_trm.c: At top level:
> dc395x_trm.c:7898: stray '\' in program
> make[2]: *** [dc395x_trm.o] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/drivers/scsi'
> make[1]: *** [_modsubdir_scsi] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.18/drivers'
> make: *** [_mod_drivers] Error 2
>
> So, what have I to do ?
> And : why do I have to recompile the whole kernel and not just to build
> a new module and then
> manually "modprobe" it ?
>
> Thank you for any suggestion !
I find that my Tekram SCSI card works fine with the kernel images found in
the Debian repositories. No compiling ever needed. I'm currently using
2.4.22-1-686.
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