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From ilug-admin@linux.ie Fri Sep 6 11:40:30 2002
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17n6O5-0000Fh-00; Fri, 06 Sep 2002 00:50:13 +0100
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Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 00:50:13 +0100
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From: Michael Conry <michael.conry@ucd.ie>
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To: eric nichols <matchsprint@trackbike.com>
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Cc: ilug@linux.ie
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Subject: Re: [ILUG] PCTel modules
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On 0020 -0700 %{!Thu, Sep 05, 2002 at 3:17:36PM -0700}, eric nichols wrote:
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> Hello again. I tried all the suggestions for the PCTel driver and at
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> the end of it, everything still goes smoothly until I type "make"
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> after I get the output from the ./configure.
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>
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> However, there were a couple of things I noticed along the way. After typing
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> * cp configs/kernel-2.4...config .config
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> * make oldconfig
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> * make dep
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> The 2nd to last line I got back said that the modversions.h file was
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> not updated. When I looked at this path to the modversions.h file, it
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> was 281 lines and every line started with a # mark.
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> Is it the case
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> that nothing is read on a line after a # mark (or am I just thinking
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> of another language?) and so should I delete the # at certain places?
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No that is appropriate content for the file. I'm not a C programmer,
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but I think that these sort of things (#include <blahblah>) are
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instructions to the compiler processed by a pre-processor in the compile
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process, and include all sorts of symbols/functions
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e.g. "#include <math.h>" gives you maths type functions. Since they
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start with "#" they are ignored in the final compilation.
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Regarding the rest of the compile process, you need to tell the PCtel
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software to look in the right place for the kernel headers/source.
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I recall from your previous mail that there was a flag
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--with-kernel-includes=/usr/src/linux-2.4
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which could be passed to the ./configure script (with the appropriate
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directory in place of /usr/src/linux-2.4). This might allow you to
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persuade the code to compile against the correct headers. I think this
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is the right way to proceed.
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Alternatively, maybe the steps above regarding "make dep" and so forth
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should have been performed in the directory where the make process is
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looking for modversions.h & Co.
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I don't think it is a good idea keep moving files into the directory as
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you describe below. First of all you will move modversions.h (which you
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have done), then you would have to move all those *.ver files, after
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that, there will almost certainly be a need for further header (*.h)
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files. This could be quickly done, but is probably bad (those files
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don't really belong there).
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For what it's worth I think you are very close to a successful
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compilation.
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m
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>
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> Also, when I was in the pctel directory and typed "make", I noticed
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> that a different subdirectory is taken to a different modversions.h
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> file. Inside this other file, there's nothing at all. And so I moved
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> the modversions.h file with 281 lines to the empty modversions.h file
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> - and got a different reply after "make". The output after I moved the
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> file over mostly looked like this:
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> /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-3/linux/modversions.h:11:33:
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> linux/modules/adb.ver: No such file or directory
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> /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-3/linux/modversions.h:12:37:
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> linux/modules/af_ax25.ver: No such file or directory
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> /usr/src/linux-2.4.18-3/linux/modversions.h:13:36:
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> linux/modules/af_ipx.ver: No such file or directory
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>
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> The odd lines being the path and the first half of the other lines are
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> what's written after the # in the modversions.h file. Should there be
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> a file at each of these (one at each of the 281 lines of the file)
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> that I'd have to compile/make?
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--
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Michael Conry Ph.:+353-1-7161987, Web: http://www.acronymchile.com
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