[wellylug] DTP SCSi card driver for SME server 7

[jumbophut]

On 2/27/06, Peter Jones wrote:
> Previously, many different distros have all had EATA drivers for DTP cards
> built in. SME 7 install stops at requesting a driver and there is an option
> to load one from diskette. I tried a quick install of mandrake 7.1 onto the
> PC, then copied all the EATA files I could find to diskette. They are
> eata.o, eata_dma.o and eata_pio.o
>

In the 2.6 kernels, drivers seem to be .ko files.  I still see EATA
drivers there.  SME7 reports that it uses a 2.6.9 kernel on its
website.

In general, copying over modules from one distro to another is not
going to be a successful strategy anyway, since kernel versions
probably need to match pretty exactly.

The (long) approach I would try is: install SME7 on some system
without the requirement for EATA drivers; compile a custom kernel on
that machine with the same .config as the default, but with EATA
drivers added; copy the resulting module and/or kernel files across to
your target machine.

Best of luck.

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