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

[Klaus Darilion]

Klaus Darilion wrote:
> Hi Armin!
> 
> With the new v3 package compilation works fine. But I still have 
> problems when starting the config script:
> 
> 'DIDD' driver load failed. Please check system installation
> (kernel version, missing files)
> 
> Do I have to load any modules before? The Eicon Card is found by lspci:
> 0000:0a:03.0 Network controller: Eicon Networks Corporation Diva Server 
> 4BRI-8M Rev 2 (rev 01)
>         Subsystem: Eicon Networks Corporation Diva Server 4BRI-8M Rev 2
>         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 77
>         Memory at fdeffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
>         I/O ports at cc00 [size=256]
>         Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
>         Memory at fdee0000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
>         Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 1
>         Capabilities: [48] #06 [0080]
>         Capabilities: [4c] Vital Product Data

If I manually insert the divadidd module from kernel24 directory
insmod divadidd.o
I get another error message:
  " No Diva adapters were found "

regards
klaus


> 
> 
> regards
> klaus
> 
> Armin Schindler wrote:
>> On Tue, 16 May 2006, Klaus Darilion wrote:
>>> Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
>>>> On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 11:05:01AM +0200, Klaus Darilion wrote:
>>>>> Armin Schindler wrote:
>>>>>> On Tue, 16 May 2006, Klaus Darilion wrote:
>>>>>>> Hi Armin!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I now tried 2 versions:
>>>>>>> A) I also executed "make prepare" in the kernel sources
>>>>>>> before building with
>>>>>>> "make KDIR=/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.8"
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> B) I compiled with the kernel headers:
>>>>>>> "make KDIR=/lib/modules/2.6.8-2-386/build/"
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Both times I got the same error message (see below). It would
>>>>>>> be great if you
>>>>>>> can take a look at it because this Asterisk server should go
>>>>>>> in production
>>>>>>> today.
>>>>>> What kernel is that? When I use the plain kernel 2.6.8 from
>>>>>> kernel.org I don't even get any warning.
>>>>>> Either the kernel headers are incomplete or this distribution
>>>>>> kernel is incompatible in some way. Can you provide a tgz of
>>>>>> these sources(headers) directory to me?
>>>>> I think I found the problem:
>>>>>
>>>>> "make KDIR=/lib/modules/2.6.8-2-386/build/" fails as
>>>>> /lib/modules/2.6.8-2-386/build/ links to
>>>>> /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.8-2-386
>>>>>
>>>>> Wheres when setting KDIR to /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.8-2 (note:
>>>>> note adding the -386) then the compilation works fine.
>>>>>
>>>>> Maybe we need a Debian expert: What is the difference between
>>>>> kernel-headers-2.6.8-2 and kernel-headers-2.6.8-2-386 ???
>>>>>
>>>>> Does the compiled 2.6.8-2 works with my 2.6.8-2-386 kernel?
>>>> kernel-headers-2.6.8-2 is a large architecture-independent package that
>>>> contains most of what is needed from the kernel source to build 
>>>> external
>>>> modules and such.
>>>>
>>>> 2.6.8-2-386 , -686, -686-smp, and all others contain the little
>>>> configuration-specific files . /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.8-2-386 has
>>>> many symlinks to files under /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.8-2 .
>>>> /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.8-2 in itself does not contain a 
>>>> "configured
>>>> source" or even a .config file.
>>> It does:
>>> ll /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.8-2/.config
>>> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 27535 2005-08-16 17:12
>>> /usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.8-2/.config
>>>
>>> The question is: can it be used to build modules for 2.6.8-2-386 ?
>>
>> I don't think so. It contains a different .config, which might not be 
>> compatible with the running kernel.
>>
>> I have made a few fixes to build with the debian header packages. The 
>> new package (3.0.f) will be available for download in about 30 Minutes.
>>
>> I have tested build with
>>   make KDIR=/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.4.27-2-386
>> and
>>   make KDIR=/usr/src/kernel-headers-2.6.8-2-386
>>
>>
>> Armin
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