On Mon, 2005-08-22 at 13:29 -0700, Craig White wrote:

RHEL 4 (and thus CentOS 4) do not have appletalk module included. CentOSPlus rather thoughtfully has the 'unsupported' version which would have the appletalk module but I have been unable to get the old megaraid driver to run compiled from the kernel-devel for these 'unsupported' kernels.

Thus I would love to simply compile the appletalk module myself from the standard kernel-devel for the standard i686/i686smp kernels as I have to do for the old megaraid driver.

Thus it would appear, that I would need the kernel source for this.

How would I 'isolate' the appletalk kernel stuff? Would I install the kernel-sourcecode rpm - like... http://centos.cs.ucr.edu/centos/4.1/os/i386/CentOS/RPMS/kernel- sourcecode-2.6.9-11.EL.noarch.rpm and hunt down the appletalk directory and compile the module separately pretty much as I do with the older megaraid code? Is it reasonable to hope that the necessary code for the appletalk kernel module would be contained in one subdirectory? Is there an easier way that I am missing?

I haven't looked, but the appletalk stuff should be in a separate directory ... but it might depend on some other items.

What errors are you having for the megaraid driver?

Do not use the kernel-sourcecode to get the buildtree ... it doesn't contain arch specific patches and configuration changes. The best way to get a full kernel tree that is fully adjusted for your arch is to download the kernel-xxxxx-src.rpm and install it using:

rpm -Uvh kernel-xxxxx.src.rpm

then

cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS

(or another location if you build with another %_topdir in your .rpmmacros)

then do

rpmbuild -bp --target i686 kernel-2.6.spec

(substitute the arch you are concerned about) and then go to

cd ../BUILD

you should have a kernel directory under there that you can move to /usr/src

in the ../SOURCE directory are all the config files for all the other arches .... so you only have to unpack it once.