Re: compiling driver on a redhat system (7.2)

From: Santiago Gala (sgala_at_hisitech.com)
Date: 2002-07-12 08:18:55 UTC

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I've managed to do it.

If you have several kernels binaries around in the machine, this patch for the Makefile:

• Prism2-2002-05-19/Makefile Sat May 18 20:36:48 2002 +++ /home/sgala/wlan-ng/Prism2-2002-05-19/Makefile Fri Jul 12 00:34:56 2002@@ -15,10 +15,7 @@ CFLAGS=-O2 -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -Wall -c

 VERFILE := $(KERNEL_PATH)/include/linux/version.h
-KERNELRELEASE := $(shell if [ -r $(VERFILE) ]; \

• then grep UTS_RELEASE $(VERFILE) | head -1 | cut -d" " -f3 | \
• xargs echo; \
• else uname -r; fi) +KERNELRELEASE := $(shell uname -r; ) MODPATH := /lib/modules/$(KERNELRELEASE) MODULE_CS := hostap_cs.o MODULE_PLX := hostap_plx.o

will install in the one you are running.

Alternatively you can just copy the module to the place where it tries to put it after successful make (I think /lib/modules/<release>/net), and execute "depmod -a"

At least this works for Mandrake, I don't know if Redhat kernel source is that different.

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