It worked a treat, I guess I had an out of date tarball.
Thanks Bryan.
Tony
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Bryan Christianson wrote:
> Hi Tony
>
> Thanks for the kind words :-)
>
> Yes - It will work with a current kernel - I just recompiled the
> kernel (2.4.26) and re-linked the driver last weekend
>
> I got the kernel source from ftp.nz.kernel.org
>
> unzipped it in /usr/src
> copied .config from my old kernel tree
>
> make sure gcc is a symlink to gcc-2.95 coz apt-get seems to overwrite
> that symlink every time it upgrades gcc
>
> e.g.
> root@cora:/usr/bin# ls -l /usr/bin/gcc
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jul 25 11:23 /usr/bin/gcc -> gcc-2.95
>
> cd to the top of your kernel tree
> make oldconfig
> make depend
> etc etc etc
>
> make sure /usr/src/linux is pointing to your new kernel tree
>
>
> cd /home/sm200d (or wherever you unzipped the driver)
> make
> make install
>
> that will put the module and a few scripts and config files into
> /usr/local/sm200d
>
> etc etc
>
> You can get the driver tarball from
>
> http://cora.whatroute.net:1953/sm200d/
>
>
> Hope that helps
> Bryan
>
>
>
> At 5:14 PM +1200 7/28/04, Tony McGregor wrote:
> >Hi Bryan
> >
> >I've had no luck with recent 2.4 kernels (and gcc 2.95.4). Do you know
> >that the driver will compile and link with recent versions of 2.4.x?
> >If so, could you post a pointer to the appropriate archive?
> >
> >Thanks
> >
> >Tony
> >
> >
> >PS FWIW IMHO Ihug lost a gem when you moved.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Bryan Christianson wrote:
> >
> >> At 11:41 AM +1200 7/28/04, John Williams wrote:
> >> >Hello, It seems that Linux users of IHUG Ultra must look after
> >>themselves. I
> >> >can happily use the sm200d card with FC1 but the new format for loadable
> >> >modules in kernel 2.6 is incompatible with the previous kernels.
> >> >I wonder if there is a person on this list who would write a new driver for
> >> >the card?
> >> >I'm sure lots of people would be interested besides me.
> >> >Thanks, John.
> >> >
> >> >
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> >> >
> >>
> >>
> >> John
> >>
> >> In a previous lifetime when working for IHUG, I did the port of the
> >> Telemann driver from Linux 2.2.x to 2.4.x
> >>
> >> I have not investigated a 2.6.x port as I am still using a 2.4.x
> >> kernel in my old P133.
> >>
> >> The major problem is binary incompatibility between kernels compiled
> >> with gcc 3.x.x and modules containing any component part compiled
> >> with a gcc 2.9.5 compiler. Unfortunately Telemann have never released
> >> the full source code to the driver - only a wrapper containg kernel
> >> interfaces for a binary object they supply. That binary object was
> >> compiled with gcc 2.9.5 and thus the module will not load.
> >>
> >> It may be possible to compile a Linux 2.6.x kernel with gcc 2.9.5 -
> >> (however I would not bet the farm on it) and then it may be possible
> >> to simply port the driver to Linux 2.6.
> >>
> >> Rewriting the driver is not really an option unless someone can
> >> persuade Telemann to disclose the source code for the hardware
> >> specific parts of the card.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Bryan Christianson
> >> email: <mailto:bryan@whatroute.net>
> >> Home Page: <http://www.whatroute.net/>
> >>
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> >>
> >>
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