Help on compiling driver

j3r3mi · #1 14th June 2012, 10:35 AM

Hi all,good day. I'm very new to linux. My bad....
I installed fedora 15 on my desktop with kernel PAE

I'm compiling a driver provider by a 3rd party. I then setup the environment.

Code:

yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
yum install kernel-devel
yum install kernel-headers
yum install kernel-PAE-devel

Code:

uname -r
2.6.43.5-2.fc15.i1686.PAE

Code:

rpm -qa | grep kernel
kernel-devel-2.6.43.5-2.fc15.i1686
kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.43.5-2.fc15.i1686
kernel-headers-2.6.43.5-2.fc15.i1686
kernel-PAE-2.6.43.5-2.fc15.i1686.PAE

Everything went fine.

so i tried to compile the using make, but an error occur in the compilation.
It did compile CentOS which i used earlier. Don't think the problem is in the code.

I really don't know whats wrong. Am i missing packages?
Are there headers file for kernel-PAE? I couldn't find any solution the net.

THANKS in advanced!!

#2 14th June 2012, 10:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by j3r3mi

Hi all,good day. I'm very new to linux. My bad....
I installed fedora 15 on my desktop with kernel PAE

I'm compiling a driver provider by a 3rd party. I then setup the environment.

Code:

yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
yum install kernel-devel
yum install kernel-headers
yum install kernel-PAE-devel

Code:

uname -r
2.6.43.5-2.fc15.i1686.PAE

Code:

rpm -qa | grep kernel
kernel-devel-2.6.43.5-2.fc15.i1686
kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.43.5-2.fc15.i1686
kernel-headers-2.6.43.5-2.fc15.i1686
kernel-PAE-2.6.43.5-2.fc15.i1686.PAE

Everything went fine.

so i tried to compile the using make, but an error occur in the compilation.
It did compile CentOS which i used earlier. Don't think the problem is in the code.

I really don't know whats wrong. Am i missing packages?
Are there headers file for kernel-PAE? I couldn't find any solution the net.

THANKS in advanced!!

Your code is too old to compile with the F15 3.3.5 kernel

j3r3mi · #3 14th June 2012, 10:54 AM

What do you mean by old?
My kernel version is 2.6.43.5-2.fc15.i1686.PAE
So which kernel version i need?

Thanks!

#4 14th June 2012, 11:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by j3r3mi

What do you mean by old?
My kernel version is 2.6.43.5-2.fc15.i1686.PAE
So which kernel version i need?

Thanks!

Quote:

What do you mean by old?

kernel changes have obsoleted your driver code

Quote:

My kernel version is 2.6.43.5-2.fc15.i1686.PAE

The internal version for that kernel is 3.3.5

Quote:

So which kernel version i need?

You need to fix your driver code

j3r3mi · #5 14th June 2012, 11:42 AM

Sadly the code is not written by me. It's provided by a 3rd party.

j3r3mi · #6 18th June 2012, 03:36 AM

I just got the info the driver has been test using Ubuntu 11.04 and kernel 2.6.38-8-generic.
I new to linux. Where version of fedora is compatible.

Thanks!