Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Tue, 13 May 2003 10:24:19 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: What exactly does "supports Linux" mean? |
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On Tue, 13 May 2003, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Maw, 2003-05-13 at 14:16, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > > I bought a card from some vendor, claiming "support for Linux". I tried > to make > > it work in a configuration with a standard 2.4.20 kernel from kernel.org. > The > > drivers (kernel modules) are binary-only. They did not load because of a > > version mismatch. Asking for versions loadable with standard kernels, > I got the > > response that they only support kernels from Red Hat and SuSE, but > no standard > > kernels. >
If you really want it to work, try `insmod -f modulename.o`. See of it works. RedHat supplies kernels with "intermediate" version numbers like linux-2.4.18-24. A perfectly-good module from linux-2.4.18 may fail to load without the '-f' option, even though it is probably compatible. Try it, it may work fine. You can modify /etc/rc.d/rc.local to insert the module during startup so you don't have to muck with /etc/modules.conf (and having other startup-code change it when it "finds" new hardware.
Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.20 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips). Why is the government concerned about the lunatic fringe? Think about it.
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