hi all,
i've got fedora core 1 running, everything works except for my el cheapo usb-adsl modem.
I know i should replace that, but not possible for a while, so i want another solution
I am no expert, but am getting there through the man pages

since the open source driver was written for Mandrake kernel 2.4.19 and fedora core uses 2.4.22 it does not work and complaines it needs the older kernel
degrading to an older kernel seems as not the way2go


comes from: olitec.com/pub/USBADSLV151-1008fr.tar.gz
so i decide to download the closed source driver for kernel 2.4.20 and up, adapted it as stated (in dutch) on the site and run make...
here goes wrong, who can help me out?

this is what i did, i untarred the file to my desktop
changed the code in the files according to the help files, then went there:
cd /root/Desktop/USBADSL

then i did:
make clean

reply:
ln: `/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/build': File exists
rm -f *.o

i knew this was going wrong, but did make anyway:

[root@localhost USBADSL]# make
ln: `/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/build': File exists
gcc -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -DCPU=686 -march=i686 -DMODULE -D__KERNEL__ -DLINUX -I/lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/include -c usbsndcm.c -o usbsndcm.o
In file included from /usr/include/linux/sched.h:14,
from /usr/include/linux/skbuff.h:19,
from hasbani.h:32,
from usbsndcm.c:20:
/usr/include/linux/timex.h:56: error: syntax error before "and"
......etc....
usbsndcm.c:416: error: `DeviceObject' undeclared (first use in this function)
usbsndcm.c: At top level:
hasbani.h:86: error: storage size of `cmd_recv_queue_head' isn't known
make: *** [usbsndcm.o] Error 1

i checked the pointer of the build module, because this sounds like wrongly composed kernel info, and i think that's a very small thing

[root@localhost root]# ls -all /lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/
totaal 3216
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 mrt 4 14:24 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 mrt 4 14:24 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 41 mrt 4 14:24 build -> ../../../usr/src/linux-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 mrt 4 14:24 kernel
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 129404 mrt 16 20:09 modules.dep
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31 mrt 16 20:09 modules.generic_string
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 443 mrt 16 20:09 modules.ieee1394map
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8330 mrt 16 20:09 modules.isapnpmap
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29 mrt 16 20:09 modules.parportmap
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 70953 mrt 16 20:09 modules.pcimap
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24 mrt 16 20:09 modules.pnpbiosmap
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 158673 mrt 16 20:09 modules.usbmap
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 mrt 4 14:24 unsupported
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2865204 okt 29 21:53 vmlinux

pointer ok, so i'm out of ideas, who knows what to do?

Maarten

Hi,
Have you got the kernel sources installed?

Cheers,
Jimvin

Hi Jimvin,

well i seemed to have solved that issue, but not entirely, something in fedora core1 is not working with (i think) up2date properly, this results in corrupt installs and the impossibility to install or update other packages. (like vnc, proxy etc)
i have been able to get the modem running by getting the compiled files elsewhere, but the rest of the config failes because i can't seen to tackle the up2date issue, have downloaded the newer version, but can't get it installed.

because of this i can't get the server running properly and this means it's keeping quiet in the corner and letting windows do the work

Maarten

and yes, Jimvin, i do have them installed, this conflict occured because of the corrupt installation of fedora core1.

i seem to be missing 2 answers i gave in the past 24 hours, but yes got them installed, but the trouble lies in the corrupt installation of fedora core 1, it seems to be up2date that's not properly working