installing module

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: installing module
started by: grit001

Posted by grit001 on Nov. 13 2006,02:31

I'm making a little stack of PC104 cards which uses DSL as the OS and it works great. We just added a serial card to keep track of some fun stuff in RT but are completely stumped trying to add the device driver / module. We've got the driver, and when run make it crashes because it can't find /lib/modules/2.4.26/build . After rooting around this is linked to /KNOPPIX/lib/modules/2.4.26/build which is linked to /usr/src/linux-2.4.26 which doesn't exist. Ultimately, we need to set the KERNELDIR value in the Makefile for the driver.

I'm pretty much a Linux noob, but until this was able to get things worked out and have fun. Where's the source for DSL?

Thanks!

Posted by Juanito on Nov. 13 2006,03:31

You might be able to compile the module by loading gcc1.dsl, kernelsource.dsl and gnu-utils.dsl

If this doesn't work, you will need to download the file linux-2.4.26.tar.gz from www.kernel.org

Posted by grit001 on Nov. 13 2006,16:13

juanito - thanks for the help! kernelsouce.dsl was everything I needed. I had to mess around and point CC = /usr/bin/gcc to get the compiler to work, etc. I've got the modules made now just have to repeat the process on the real equipment.

eric