RE: kernel 2.2.12

["Jay Benfield" <jay@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In the immortal words of Homer J. Simpson: "DOH!"

I went back through and it was /NOT/ listed
as a module in the "Low Level SCSI Drivers" section
when doing a 'make menuconfig'. I had done the
'make modules' and the 'make modules_install'
but that's no good if it's not set as a module.

I'm recompiling now.

-----Original Message-----
From: bruce@armintl.com [mailto:bruce@armintl.com]
Sent: Friday, October 08, 1999 4:19 PM
To: klug@klug.armintl.com
Subject: Re: kernel 2.2.12


> I've got a linux box running 2.0.36-0.7 (aka the stock RedHat 5.2 kernel).
> I've since been working on installing the 2.2.12 kernel.

It's easier to upgrade to RH 6.1.  That way the other packages
that die when switching from 2.0 to 2.2 will all be upgraded too.

> Everything is dandy until go to run mkinitrd and it tells me:
>
> "No module aic7xxx found for kernel 2.2.12"
>
> That's the module for the Adaptec 2940 SCSI controller which is in the
box.
> After it gives me that messages it does <<not>> make the image.
>
> Any way I can get around this? I can't imagine a new kernel not having
> support for this card.

aic7xxx.o is there in my 2.2.12 (Stock Redhat 6.1) directory.

Are you sure you selected _module_ support for it in the kernel options?
If you compiled it static into the kernel, it's no longer a module!

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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