I've been working on this for a few days straight, finally need to ask for help.

I'm running Slack 9 and I'm trying to add in a small netfilter module.

Here are the instructions to install it

Well, I think I'm having trouble modifying the Makefile and Config.in files.

I added this line to the Makefile:
And this to the Config.in file:
Well, first of all I'm trying to recompile my entire Kernel after this. If I compile just the modules I'm unsure of what to do? I do a make dep; make modules; make modules_install - would I just copy the compiled files into my existing Linux install's netfilter dirs with all the other existing mods then do a modinst (or whatever the module install command is) on them? I borked something during the Kernel compile, and I wasn't able to boot to the new Kernel. But when I tried the modinst (?) command on the modules I got some Unresolved Symbol errors.

Since I'm just guessing at what I'm adding to the config.in & makefile I think that is my problem.

This should allow me to read the server list for a game off of the 'master server' for the game and export it to a webpage w/ a combo of Apache, ANT and Tomcat. Someone else had this working but is no longer able to host it, that's why I'm working on this now.

Any help would be appreciated, I'm clueless with this Makefile & Config.in.

Thank you!

TySoft,

You shouldn't need to install the .c and .h files into the linux src hierarchy. Just pull the CFLAGS from the Makefile, add a -DMODULE, and include the linux include directory. Something like this:

gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -DMODULE -I<wherever you src to the running kernel is>/include -o ipt_TRIBES.o ipt_TRIBES.c

Then 'cp ipt_TRIBES.o /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/'
Notice the backtick on uname -r.

Run 'depmod -a' to rebuild the module dependencies

The module should have come with it's own makefile. Oh well. No need to rebuild the kernel either. (Unless there is patches, but you didn't mention any)

I haven't done this in a long time, but it should work.

Hope that helps,
chris

PS What are the unresolved dependencies?

Thanks for your quick reply. Still having some troubles though.

In fact, I'm not sure what's going on now. Here's the command I'm running:

(the .o and .c files are obviously in the dir I'm running that from)

I get spit out a TON of errors from other .c & .h files that look like they're called by the TRIBES file

Bout 5 pages of things like /usr/src/linux/include/net/sock.h:1109: parse error before "u32" and "function declaration isn't a prototype" and "dereferencing pointer to incomplete type". More stuff like /usr/src/linux/include/linux/highmem.h:117: warning: passing arg 1 of 'kmap' for incompatible pointer type. The last error of them all is an "ipt_TRIBES.c:98: storage size of 'ipt_tribes_reg' isn't known.

Tried removing the -Wstrict-prototypes to no avail.

Obviously not getting a .o file output or anything (if I did wouldn't they end up in the dir I'm runnign the command from?).

The module doesn't have a makefile included, so I'm not sure how I could "Just pull the CFLAGS from the Makefile" unless you're referring to another Makefile.

I feel as if I'm completely off base here/missing something.

Thanks again for your reply, getting a few ideas and reading some other posts...

I just did a make modules again (with everything in the src/linux directories) and tried to install the modules, now im getting a cannot find kernel that module was compiled for error, even though the usr/src/linux dir is the same version as im running. I think this is better than unresolved symbol errors... I see a lot of people have had similar problems with this error, trying a few things now