[Asterisk-Users] Eicon Diva - problems building new v3 melware driver

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 09:27:41PM +0200, Armin Schindler wrote:
> > On Mon, May 15, 2006 20:04, Tzafrir Cohen said:
> > > For starters, let's remove some clutter
> > >
> > > On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 06:47:54PM +0200, Klaus Darilion wrote:
> > >> Hi Armin!
> > >>
> > >> I have problems on debian sarge with standard 2.6.8-2-386 kernel.
> > >>
> > >> I've installed the packages:
> > >>  kernel-headers-2.6.8-2
> > >>  kernel-headers-2.6.8-2-386
> > >>  kernel-image-2.6.8-2-386
> > >>  kernel-kbuild-2.6-3
> > >>  kernel-source-2.6.8
> > >
> > > If you have kernel-source , you don't normally need kernel-headers , and
> > > vice-versa. Most modules will simply build with the kernel-headers
> > > package . It also installs in a way that is already laid as an extracted
> > > source tree . /lib/modules/<version>/build is a symlink to
> > > /usr/src/kernel-headers-<version> .
> > 
> > Hi Armin!
> > 
> > Will it be sufficient to only have kernel-headers isntead of full sources?
> >  Digium and Sangoma zaptel cards for example only requires the
> > kernel-headers.

The sangoma drivers build without patching the source? That's news to
me. Good to know. If anybody needs my help in making a proper deb out 
of them, I'd be glad to. I just don't have the hardware to test with.

> 
> I did not test that yet, but the sources itself are not needed of course.
> The divas4linux-melware package uses (unlike the eicon package) the kernels
> build system without changing the sources.
> So if the installed header-package provides the possibility to build a 
> kernel module using the kernels Makefile, 

It does

-- Tzafrir