AW: [epic] can't compile epic100.c under 2.4 kernel (Red Hat 7.1) ?

[Boch, Heiko]

Well, I had trouble with the epic100 and SuSE 7.1.
The compiled module they ship with their kernel 2.4.0
didn't work with my SMC Etherpower II 10/100. Needless
to say that the source-module did when I compiled a
new kernel. Finally I got it running with some patches 
from Andreas Steinmetz [ast@domdv.de]. He posted
them a while ago to this list (that time for a 2.2.x kernel,
but they seem to work for 2.4.0 as well - if you patch
smart by hand ;-).

For those of you who are interested in the source of my
my current working module have a look at
http://lrcwww.epfl.ch/~boch/sw/epic100.c.txt

Good look,

	Heiko


> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: James Ralston [mailto:qralston+ml.epic@andrew.cmu.edu]
> Gesendet am: Donnerstag, 10. Mai 2001 06:22
> An: epic@scyld.com
> Betreff: [epic] can't compile epic100.c under 2.4 kernel (Red 
> Hat 7.1)?
> 
> Has anyone been able to get epic100.c (version 1.11 1/7/2001) to
> compile under the 2.4 kernel series?
> 
> I'm running Red Hat 7.1, kernel 2.4.2-2.  The stock epic100.o that
> comes with RH 7.1 (version 1.11 1/7/2001, which additionally
> identifies itself as "unofficial 2.4.x kernel port, version 1.1.6,
> January 11, 2001") works fine for the most part, but I have a
> dual-boot Windows/Linux machine, and Windows always leaves the card in
> ACPI D3 state.  The stock Red Hat 7.1 epic100.o doesn't restore the
> ACPI power state of the card.
> 
> I had this same problem with Red Hat 7.0 and 6.x; the solution that
> Donald recommended was to grab kern_compat.h, pci-scan.h, pci-scan.c,
> and epic100.c directly from http://www.scyld.com/network/ and compile
> and install pci-scan.c and epic100.c.  This worked fine.
> 
> But now, although I can compile pci-scan.c with no errors, attempting
> this compile command:
> 
> kgcc -DMODULE -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O6  -c epic100.c
> 
> ...results in 48 lines' worth of errors and warnings.  It looks as if
> epic100.c hasn't been ported to kernel 2.4 yet.
> 
> Right now, the only way I can boot from Windows to Linux is to
> completely power off my machine and then power it back on.  This
> works, but unnecessary power cycles are not a Good Thing.
> 
> A unified diff (with 0 context lines) between Red Hat's "unofficial
> 2.4.x kernel port" epic100.c and Donald's epic100.c is 744 lines.
> Despite having the same 1.11 version number, these are very different
> beasts.
> 
> Any advice on the best way to get an epic100 driver compiled for the
> 2.4 kernel that knows how to restore the ACPI power state of the card?
> 
> -- 
> James Ralston, Information Technology
> Software Engineering Institute
> Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
> 
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