Craig White wrote: > On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 23:47 -0700, Craig White wrote: >>On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 22:08 -0700, Craig White wrote: >>>On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 21:48 -0600, William wrote: >>>>If you're interested in what I have, here's an archive link to one of my >>>>older posts on this very topic: >>>>http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2005-August/009501.html >>> >>>---- >>>that sounds simple enough...I've got a CentOS 4 system that I'm updating >>>right now before I download the module source and compile it. Let's see >>>how far I get. >>---- >>I'm sort of stuck where you are... >> >>anyone to toss a bone here on compiling kernel modules >> >>I'm following the release notes: >>Note >>An exploded source tree is not required to build kernel modules against >>the currently in-use kernel. >> >>For example, to build the foo.ko module, create the following file >>(named Makefile) in the directory containing the foo.c file: >> >> >>obj-m := foo.o >> >>KDIR := /lib/modules/$(shell uname -r)/build >>PWD := $(shell pwd) >> >>default: >> $(MAKE) -C $(KDIR) SUBDIRS=$(PWD) modules >> >>so >># ls -l >>total 204 >>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 137 Aug 13 23:36 Makefile >>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 140 Aug 13 23:33 Makefile~ >>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 118447 Jun 24 12:42 megaraid.c >>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 29506 Jun 24 12:42 megaraid.h >>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2808 Jun 24 13:04 scsi.h >>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4146 Jun 24 13:05 scsi_obsolete.h >>-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 215 Jun 24 13:05 scsi_typedefs.h >> >># cat Makefile >>obj-m := megaraid.o >> >>KDIR := /lib/modules/2.6.9-11.ELsmp/build >>PWD := $(shell pwd) >> >>default: >> $(MAKE) -C $(KDIR) SUBDIRS=$(PWD) modules >> >>then running the following...I'm shooting blanks... >> >># make -w >>make: Entering directory `/usr/src/megaraid' >>make -C /lib/modules/2.6.9-11.ELsmp/build SUBDIRS=/usr/src/megaraid modules >>make[1]: Entering directory `/lib/modules/2.6.9-11.ELsmp/build' >>make[1]: *** No rule to make target `modules'. Stop. >>make[1]: Leaving directory `/lib/modules/2.6.9-11.ELsmp/build' >>make: *** [default] Error 2 >>make: Leaving directory `/usr/src/megaraid' >> >>Anyone care to toss a bone my way? > > ---- > Solved > > yum install kernel-devel didn't work because like a moron, I was in smp > kernel and so I needed to yum install kernel-smp-devel which then made > it all work but of course the boot cd is a uni-processor so I will have > to wait until I can reboot the production machine into a uni-processor > mode to compile a suitable module to test Please keep us posted on your progress. I too am stuck at Centos 3 because of an old Megaraid controller. Thanks, Ajay