[wellylug] DTP SCSi card driver for SME server 7

Peter Jones PeterJ at indeserve.co.nz
Mon Feb 27 10:53:51 NZDT 2006


> 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.
> 
> --
> Tony (echo 'spend!,pocket awide' | sed 'y/acdeikospntw!, 
> /l at omcgtjuba.phi/')

Feel a headache coming on....
I'll try the .ko extension and see what happens. Thanks




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