El sáb, 21-12-2002 a las 22:22, Jeff Kaplan escribió: > I had this same setup also. I tried an upgrade from 7.3 to 8.0 with a HP > 370 PCI card... I had the correct bios and correct drivers fro 7.3. But the > problem with upgrading is that they don't have a 8.0 driver for thier 370 > chipset. So, I also downloaded the Highpoint opensource driver for > compiling. I compiled it and tried to install. The system would not load > in the module. This is because inside Highpoint's "opensource" driver is a > ".o" object. So, the open source driver isn't completely opensource. How > to fix this problem is load in the module using the "-f" option to force a > load. This works on my system. Even though its not 100% 8.0 compatible it > is good enough. Why is doens't load in is because the kernel in 8.0 is > compilied with GCC 3.x and so ALL the modules must be compiled with gcc 3.x. > Highpoint's opensource driver has that one ".o" object that was compiled > with gcc 2.x. So, the kernel will not load in that module due to > compatibility issues. But when you force a load, it will work. It did on > my system. Look here: http://www.bandaancha.st/documentos.php?docid=56 (The english version starts at the half of the document :P) There is a cheat to load the module without -f :)
