Still, following a discussion with Philippe, may we ask you to
positively verify that the kernel-devel stuff is installed on your
computer?
There are two ways (at least) to verify:
1-Philippe: You can read
http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/Intel/Philippe.Vouters/Intel-Readme.html
2-or me: since SuSE is an RPM system you can simply rpm -qa | grep
kernel and watch if you see kernel-devel
in the list. You can even rpm -qa | grep kernel-devel but if
absent you see nothing else, and I like to see something as I am typos
prone.
If you do not have kernel-devel installed, you must install it either
from a disk or the network, using yast or yum or apt-get or any
equivalent which you may know. Again, the file is kernel-devel .
Then, try again to compile the driver.
Jacques (quoting Philippe).
Dear Jacques,
Thank you very much indeed for your help.
I did download the original driver file from Phillipe's website, and I now
have the latest version (also from his website). This fails in just the same
way as the earlier version.
I VERY strongly suspect a "sick" kernel version. I needed to upgrade the stock
kernel in 11.1 to enable my TV card to work, so I downloaded pre-compiled
rpms from the openSUSE Build Service. I did this because I have never
compiled a kernel from scratch before, and, since I am using my main
computer, I was scared to try it in case it crashed! I have had no trouble
with this kernel on a day-to-day basis.
I will follow your suggestions, and report back as soon as I can.
Best regards
Lawson
On Tuesday 13 October 2009 12:14:36 Jacques Goldberg wrote:
Dear Lawson,
The compilation fails because of the following problem which you
reported in your first mail to us (report
http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/bigarch/archive-nineth/msg02234.html ) :
make: *** /usr/src/packages/BUILD/kernel-pae-2.6.29/linux-2.6.29: No such
file or directory. Stop.
So, I asked you to send me list of all files under /usr/src in your
machine, using command ls -R (ls lists files, -R lists recursively).
In what you sent me here is the relevant part:
/usr/src/packages:
BUILD
RPMS
SOURCES
SPECS
SRPMS
/usr/src/packages/BUILD:
/usr/src/packages/RPMS:
athlon
geode
i386
i486
i586
i686
noarch
/usr/src/packages/RPMS/athlon:
/usr/src/packages/RPMS/geode:
/usr/src/packages/RPMS/i386:
/usr/src/packages/RPMS/i486:
/usr/src/packages/RPMS/i586:
/usr/src/packages/RPMS/i686:
/usr/src/packages/RPMS/noarch:
/usr/src/packages/SOURCES:
/usr/src/packages/SPECS:
Because you have nothing below /usr/src/packages/BUILD/ , the compilation
process cannot reach the directory
/usr/src/packages/BUILD/kernel-pae-2.6.29/linux-2.6.29 thus it stops.
NOW IS THE TIME TO ASK: where did you find the file which you try to
compile, does it come from either of Philippe Vouter's site or mirror at
http://linmodems.technion.ac.il, or did you find it in some SuSE disk or
archive?
If the latter is true, erase that file, download
http://linmhttp://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/Intel/Philippe.Vouters/
intel-536EP-537EP_2009_07_07.tar.bz2 unpack it with tar jxf
intel-536EP-537EP_2009_07_07.tar.bz2
<http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/Intel/Philippe.Vouters/intel-536E
P-537EP_2009_07_07.tar.bz2> , enter directory intel-536-537 and follow the
instructions.
If it is that or slightly earlier file that you use, what can be done about
it? _*Working as root*_ ( likely su under SuSE, possibly sudo), you can
create the missing structure with one command:
mkdir -p /usr/src/packages/BUILD/kernel-pae-2.6.29/linux-2.6.29
and then retry the compilation.
My bet is that it will stop at some further place because of the same
problem with some other directory. Just add what is missing according to
that scheme until success.
The right way however, and I do forward this to Philippe, is to report to
him the problem. Either you have installed a sick distribution or a sick
modem driver file, or a change is needed in one or more of Philippe's make
files (I cannot believe this).
Please keep us informed of the outcome of just adding what the script shows
as missing in the paths.
Thanks
Jacques
