cracking winmodem issues pt 2: error messages - ?solution?

[James Wilkinson]

Art Ped wrote:
> Sorry James, I admit my earlier e-mails were more than a littly foggy.

That's OK.
>  
> I tried slmodem-2.9.8, slmodem-2.9.7 and slmodem-2.9.9 from
> http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/smartlink/   but with no luck.
> Once again I amended the Kernel-directory path in Makefile. When I
> typed "make" I got the long list of error messages attached to this
> e-mail in FULL as "errors" (I managed to put it on a floppy and
> export it to Windows).
> I have tried both
> /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.358
> and /lib/modules/2.6.5-1.358/build   as the kernel path.
> It looks as if I've either got that wrong or I am missing a great many
> kernel headers (???).

OK: I've now installed the Fedora 2.6.5-1.358 source code, and I'm
getting lots of errors while trying to compile the 2.9.9 driver. But
it's building fine against a standard 2.6.7 from kernel.org. I'd say
it doesn't like one of Fedora's patches.

Warning: a module compiled against 2.6.7 probably won't work on
2.6.5-1.358.

I'd recommend you get hold of 2.6.7 from a kernel.org mirror, compile
it yourself, boot from it, then compile the slmodem driver against the
2.6.7 source and try it there.

Hope this helps,

James.

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