I've got it running using 2.0.36 under Redhat 5.0, 4.2 and Slackware 3.3
My procedure was really simple. (4.02 that is)
1. I installed and compile the new kernal with Modules turned on,
although I had none. I did not enable kerneld and not installed ftape
(2.x in the kernel)
2. installed source for ftape-4.02 and edited nothing. Merely did
a make and a make install. (I did wait until I booted the 2.0.36
kernel before doing make)
3. Just ran modprobe zftape, modprobe ftape-internal, modprobe trakker,
modprobe bpck-fdc
Note: I've not read the docs and have been really busy so I don't know
if I need to run all 4 modprobes. I do know that the last two give
errors but the tape drives work fine.......
Bradley G. Kaiser wrote:
>
> Has anyone out there gotten ftape-3.x or 4.x to work with kernel
> 2.0.36? 2.0.35? What's the latest kernel they've worked with in
> the 2.0.x series?
>
> I ask because I'm seeing something very strange. When I load
> ftape.o into memory, and dump the kernel's symbol table with
> "ksyms", ALL of the exported ftape symbols are mapped to the same
> (highly bogus) address as far as the kernel is concerned.
> This does not appear to happen with other modules, only ftape.o.
> (In fact, I can load another unrelated module on top of ftape.o,
> and its addresses are fine, but ftape's are still bogus. I
> can also reverse the process.) Also, when I run "insmod -m"
> to get a load map, the addresses in the map are totally legitimate.
>
> Of course, when I go to load zftape.o (or any other stacked
> module) on top of ftape.o, it blows up because all of the
> ftape calls are at bad addresses. (I've confirmed this by
> dumping the addresses of about 20 ftape functions from inside
> zftape's initialization routine.)
>
> I'm really beginning to think I'm on the trail of a kernel bug
> here.
>
> Brad Kaiser
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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