[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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