Thomas Also make sure that a SuSE equivalent of the two following Debian/Ubuntu packages are installed, which are part of ALSA audio support distribution. libasound2 provides headers which are Included in the slmodemd compile of the modem/ sub folder libasound2-dev is additionally needed if the slmodemd is to support the open source ALSA modem drivers included with kernel+modules For the slamr.ko driver you need, the additional ALSA support is not needed in slmodemd, The manual command to include ALSA support is # make SUPPORT_ALSA=1 MarvS On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 1:29 PM, Marvin Stodolsky <marvin.stodolsky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hopefully, dkms will be up to date on the new includes positions. That is > its Obligation. Just try it. > > MarvS > > On Feb 25, 2012 11:40 AM, "Thomas Wilhelmi" <willi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: >> >> Yes, but if the includes are on wrong places or the compilation itself >> fails? >> >> >> > Dkms will do the compile and installation. >> > MarvS >> > On Feb 25, 2012 6:09 AM, "Thomas Wilhelmi" <willi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> > wrote: >> >> > Hi, >> > >> > but even if I install dkms (it's currently not) I first need to get >> > slmodem compiled without it. Or do I have a misunderstanding here? >> > >> > Thomas >> > >> >> Thomas, >> > >> >> Likely DKMS support is already installed on your System. >> >> You can check with: >> >> # dkms --help >> >> # dkms --status >> >> which will list any modules already under DKMS support. >> >> If not resident, surely you will be able to download it from the SuSE >> >> repository. >> > >> >> MarvS >> > >> >> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 4:11 PM, Thomas Wilhelmi >> >> <willi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> Thx for this info. I don't care building the module everytime if it >> >>> works :-) But here is my problem :-) >> >>> >> >>>> Thomas, >> >>> >> >>>> dkms means Dynamic Kernel Module Support: >> >>> >> >>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Kernel_Module_Support >> >>> >> >>>> linux.dell.com/dkms/permalink/ >> >>> >> >>>> If you update kernel, the module needed for smartlink modems >> >>>> (slamr.ko) is build automagically and you won't have to worry about >> >>>> compiling everytime you update the kernel. >> >>> >> >>>> Regards, >> >>> >> >>> >> >>>> Antonio >> >>> >> > >> > >> > >> >> >
