Re: [SLE] hptraid module building

From: Ken Schneider (kschneider_at_rtsx.com)
Date: 08/30/03

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    From: Richard <rick47@adelphia.net>
    To: suse-linux-e@suse.com
    Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 22:27:21 -0700
    Subject: [SLE] hptraid module building

    > I am trying to build a module to run an HPT372N chip. The HPT site has
    > pre-built modules and kernels for SuSE 8.1 and lower, but not 8.2.
    > They do
    > provide an open source module download. I downloaded that and have
    > been
    > trying to build the module for my SuSE 8.2-athlon system. It seems no
    > matter
    > what I do the module built, when I try to insmod it to see if it will
    > load,
    > gives an error saying it was built for -2.4.20-4GB while I am running
    > -2.4.20-athlon. I copied version and autoconf files from /boot to my
    > source
    > files in /usr/src/linux but still get the same errors.

    Did you do a make dep after copying the file? This builds that
    dependencies required to properly build the module.

    > I assume I could modprobe with --force but that always warns with the
    > ...tainted kernel warning and I don't want to trust my system to
    > ignoring
    > that message.
    > I hope I did not screw something else up that I did not understand by
    > running
    > depmod -F /proc/ksyms to try to get version symbols to match. That
    > seemed to
    > make sense in the man description. Still same errors. Any help? I
    > may need
    > to be led by the nose through this. Richard
    >
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