Compilation of oricono_cs v.12b in RH's 2.4.18-5

[Richard Michael]

Hi Pavel,

Thanks for the quick response.

When I first tried to change from the kernel's yenta_socket to the
standalone i82365, I wanted to build the modules and install them
without disrupting the existing kernel-pcmcia modules.  I found this to
be tricky however (I built the pcmcia-cs modules with the -force
Configure option, etc.).

So, I eventually removed the kernel-pcmcia-cs package, rebuilt the
standalone package (pcmcia-cs-3.2.0) and installed the modules.  I found
that version of the orinoco module was stilling hanging around from the
kernel package, so I removed it.  At one point, if memory serves, I had
it working (that is, the orinoco_cs module loaded).  However, I decided
the upgrade the orinoco (related modules) to 12b (pcmcia-cs 3.2.0 has
version 11b).  I then removed the modules that were build by the _stand
alone_ package too.

> Make sure you have only one copy orinoco_cs.o, orinoco.o and hermes.o
> under /lib/modules/2.4.18-5/pcmcia/

[foouser at foohost]$ find /lib/modules/2.4.18-5 -name \*orinoco\* -ls
 51142   48 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root        48100 Jul 30 17:37
/lib/modules/2.4.18-5/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.o
 51152    6 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root         5896 Jul 30 17:37
/lib/modules/2.4.18-5/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_pci.o
 51159    7 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root         6288 Jul 30 17:37
/lib/modules/2.4.18-5/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_plx.o
 51147    8 -rw-r--r--   1 root     root         8088 Jul 30 17:36
/lib/modules/2.4.18-5/pcmcia/orinoco_cs.o

and, for the dependancy structure:

[foouser at foohost]$ grep orinoco /lib/modules/2.4.18-5/modules.dep  
/lib/modules/2.4.18-5/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.o:
    /lib/modules/2.4.18-5/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/hermes.o
/lib/modules/2.4.18-5/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_pci.o:
    /lib/modules/2.4.18-5/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.o \
/lib/modules/2.4.18-5/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_plx.o:
    /lib/modules/2.4.18-5/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.o \
/lib/modules/2.4.18-5/pcmcia/orinoco_cs.o:
    /lib/modules/2.4.18-5/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.o \

> More information about the way you built and installed the driver would be 
> useful (i.e. whether you compiled it standalone or as part of the kernel).

Was that enough?

> glibc and your hardware are irrelevant.  But you should be compiling 
> against the kernel headers of the kernel it's going to work with.  I 
> guess it's all right, or you would have more unresolved symbols.

/usr/include/linux points to /lib/modules/2.4.18-5/build/include/linux
  (which points to the appropriate /usr/src/linux... dir)

Similarily for /usr/include/asm.

> You have versioning in the kernel turned on.  Versioning adds the checksum 
> to the names.

Ahh.. right of course that explains it!  Thanks.

Any thoughts?

Richard