I have a number of boxes that use Eicon S94 cards. We are attempting to upgrade these boxes to CentOS 4.2. We are using CentOS 4.2 in other capacities and are trying to migrate off of older RedHat 6.2 and 7.3 installations.

Our kickstart and installation procedures are pretty nailed down, and we do a custom kickstart, blah blah blah, but including a custom-compiled version of the same kernel that ships with CentOS 4.2, 2.6.9-22.EL.

We were recently given Eicon drivers for RHEL4 (which CentOS 4 is). We built a box with 4 S94 cards, and tried to install the drivers, and the system would not install them. I tried doing an insmod, and got

dmesg showed the message

When I installed the default kernel, EcDrv.ko loaded fine. So I started with the .config that came with the default kernel and made the changes needed for our environment. I left as much as I could default, and I have tried several iterations of kernel compiles, adjusting several kernel options which looked like they may affect the module format information, including the module support, networking, etc. Is there a way to get this driver to work with this kernel or is it an issue with the driver itself?

Thanks,
--Storm

I think the patch for the kernel will solve the problem. try to upgrade to 2.6.17.X and apply patch-2.6.17.X.bz2.

I've seem a 2.6.14.X working fine with s94 cards

hope that helps

Thanks for your feedback, jp-lack.

I don't think that the Powers That Be will sign off on upgrading to a pristine 2.6.17.x kernel. They want to stick with the distributed kernel. And the S94 works fine with the shipped version of the 2.6.9-22.EL kernel, which, in conjunction with the error messages I'm seeing, implies that the vendor has locked the driver to a specific kernel build. I was hoping that there was some way to tweak the kernel to accomodate the driver.

It looks like I'm going to have to try to get the vendor to make the driver more generic. Unfortunately, I am not a kernel dev, so I'm not sure what to ask them for.