It's strange to me however, that the controller isn't already in the latest 2.6 kernels from Gentoo. I first suspected Debian of being their usual slow, backwards selves, but there must be some sort of other reason why the controller drivers aren't in the stock Linux kernels....
Let me know how it comes out. Andrew Baudouin Applications Programmer AWC, Incorporated [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Will Hill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2005 10:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [brlug-general] kernel compile with extra modules. Yeah, it's the right chipset and the driver is GPL. Their documentation, however, is mostly for Red Hat and is very Microsofty. They packaged their manuals as DOC! Oh well, I can't fault them for my inability to roll their source into a kernel. http://www.ite.com.tw/software_download/software_download2.asp This: http://www.passys.nl/tips/ite_kernel_image_compile.txt seems to have what I was looking for. I had only modified my Makefile. The above author says I also need to modify something called Config.in I'm going to try it today and let you know how it comes out. Because ITE released this GPL, I imagine it will get rolled into stock kernels. If it were not for that, the $40 card would have been back at the CompUSA by now. /* * linux/drivers/scsi/iteraid.c * * (C) Copyright 2002-2004 ITE Tech, inc. * * Nov 11, 2002 Mark Lu file created. * * ITE IT8212 RAID controller device driver for Linux. * * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it * under the terms of the GNU General Public License _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
