Dear folks, Robert & Marv, I don't have a dialup connection anymore, but I try to maintain some scripts that will generate a working driver formerly for slax and now for porteus live cd. I had a build script that generated the module (a working package that is inserted on the fly and modem would be accessible and working). In the newer kernels, the driver was not compiling. root@porteus:~/Downloads/pctel-0.9.7-9-rht-11/src# cat make.log | more CC vuart.o LD binary.a make -C /lib/modules/2.6.38.8-porteus/build M=/root/Downloads/pctel-0.9.7-9-rht-11/src make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.38.8' LD /root/Downloads/pctel-0.9.7-9-rht-11/src/built-in.o CC [M] /root/Downloads/pctel-0.9.7-9-rht-11/src/linmodem-2.6.o /root/Downloads/pctel-0.9.7-9-rht-11/src/linmodem-2.6.c:89:8: warning: type defaults to 'int' in decla ration of 'DECLARE_MUTEX' /root/Downloads/pctel-0.9.7-9-rht-11/src/linmodem-2.6.c:89:1: warning: parameter names (without types) in function declaration /root/Downloads/pctel-0.9.7-9-rht-11/src/linmodem-2.6.c: In function 'linmodem_find_by_port': /root/Downloads/pctel-0.9.7-9-rht-11/src/linmodem-2.6.c:304:8: error: 'linmodem_sem' undeclared (first use in this function) /root/Downloads/pctel-0.9.7-9-rht-11/src/linmodem-2.6.c:304:8: note: each undeclared identifier is rep orted only once for each function it appears in /root/Downloads/pctel-0.9.7-9-rht-11/src/linmodem-2.6.c: In function 'linmodem_find_by_line': /root/Downloads/pctel-0.9.7-9-rht-11/src/linmodem-2.6.c:327:8: error: 'linmodem_sem' undeclared (first use in this function) /root/Downloads/pctel-0.9.7-9-rht-11/src/linmodem-2.6.c: At top level: /root/Downloads/pctel-0.9.7-9-rht-11/src/linmodem-2.6.c:1204:8: warning: type defaults to 'int' in dec laration of 'DECLARE_MUTEX' /root/Downloads/pctel-0.9.7-9-rht-11/src/linmodem-2.6.c:1204:1: warning: parameter names (without type s) in function declaration /root/Downloads/pctel-0.9.7-9-rht-11/src/linmodem-2.6.c: In function 'linmodem_register_port': /root/Downloads/pctel-0.9.7-9-rht-11/src/linmodem-2.6.c:1231:8: error: 'serial_sem' undeclared (first use in this function) /root/Downloads/pctel-0.9.7-9-rht-11/src/linmodem-2.6.c: In function '__unregister_port': /root/Downloads/pctel-0.9.7-9-rht-11/src/linmodem-2.6.c:1265:8: error: 'serial_sem' undeclared (first use in this function) /root/Downloads/pctel-0.9.7-9-rht-11/src/linmodem-2.6.c: In function 'linmodem_exit': /root/Downloads/pctel-0.9.7-9-rht-11/src/linmodem-2.6.c:1325:8: error: 'linmodem_sem' undeclared (firs t use in this function) /root/Downloads/pctel-0.9.7-9-rht-11/src/linmodem-2.6.c: In function 'linmodem_new': /root/Downloads/pctel-0.9.7-9-rht-11/src/linmodem-2.6.c:1349:8: error: 'linmodem_sem' undeclared (firs t use in this function) /root/Downloads/pctel-0.9.7-9-rht-11/src/linmodem-2.6.c: In function 'linmodem_del': /root/Downloads/pctel-0.9.7-9-rht-11/src/linmodem-2.6.c:1396:8: error: 'linmodem_sem' undeclared (firs t use in this function) /root/Downloads/pctel-0.9.7-9-rht-11/src/linmodem-2.6.c: At top level: /root/Downloads/pctel-0.9.7-9-rht-11/src/linmodem-2.6.c:1204:8: warning: 'DECLARE_MUTEX' declared 'sta tic' but never defined make[2]: *** [/root/Downloads/pctel-0.9.7-9-rht-11/src/linmodem-2.6.o] Error 1 make[1]: *** [_module_/root/Downloads/pctel-0.9.7-9-rht-11/src] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.38.8' make: *** [all] Error 2 However, by making some changes, the compilation goes through and the driver is compiled: Line 89 in original source from static DECLARE_MUTEX(linmodem_sem); to #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,37) static DECLARE_MUTEX(linmodem_sem); #else static DEFINE_SEMAPHORE(linmodem_sem); #endif Line 1204 or so add: #if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,37) static DECLARE_MUTEX(serial_sem); #else static DEFINE_SEMAPHORE(serial_sem); #endif I will try to write a script with sed that fixes this so I could patch up a build script for porteus: http://www.forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=37&sid=83038aa01e399928c2a6e5b99bb96eb8 I was looking for a fix and I saw the fix applied in this page: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=602367 Hope to fix it so that users that need a working module for porteus are not left in the dark. Regards, Antonio
