I'm not sure if I can be of any help, but that controller doesn't seem to even appear in the list of kernel modules for PCI IDE on my 2.6.9-gentoo-r12 "make menuconfig". Are you sure it's that chipset or might it be another one? (Of course you are, you even have source for it ;))
Andrew Baudouin Applications Programmer AWC, Incorporated [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Will Hill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 12:24 PM To: BRLUG General list Subject: [brlug-general] kernel compile with extra modules. Network storage and kernel compiles, what a nice combination of threads for me. I'm trying to improve my cable gateway, a 90MHz Pentium running Debian Sarge, and can use some advice about compiling custom modules. I recently bought a faster IDE controller, hoping to make my net storage faster. I got it for $40 at CompUSA. The chipset is Integrated Technology Express, Inc. IT/ITE8212 Dual channel ATA RAID controller (PCI version seems to be IT8212, embedded seems (rev 11) and it comes with a GPL driver for both 2.4 and 2.6 kernels which have not been rolled into Debian's stock kernel or source yet. I don't want to use the RAID function, just the controller. >From what I've read online, you have to actually put the driver source into a kernel source tree to compile the module. So I did, being careful to save the stock Makefile as Makefile.save and have the ITE makefile as Makefile.ite, so that things could work either way. Kpkg did not work, and I attribute that to strangeness with Experimental that I'm running on the system I tried to compile with. kpackage worked great on Woody. The module compiled with Makefile.ite as a makefile after a kernel compile, but it would not load up with the stock kernel. What I really wanted to do was modify the stock Makefile so that the new source would be picked up and nice tools like, make xconfig and make-kpkg would work and I'd be able to install the new kernel as a package. I imagine that there are some automated utilities for configuring, but I don't how to use them. On Wednesday 05 January 2005 10:45 am, Fernando Vilas wrote: > I've been running the pvr-250 for about a year now under MythTV. It's > great. About the only downside is that it requires ivtv drivers > (ivtv.sourceforge.net). You have to use the 0.2.x release candidates, > since the 0.1.x series has some issues with it. These must be rebuilt > everytime that you recompile the kernel, sort of like the nvidia drivers. > > Driver issues aside, this is a wonderful (and cheap) card. And it works > really well with MythTV, both releases and cvs. _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
