Hello all. I am trying to get ftape set up for a Trakker 250, the parallel port tape drive. I understand that, while this kernel (2.2.9) allows one to enable ftape, this built-in ftape does not work with the parallel port Trakker. I recompiled the kernel, selected "no" for the ftape, recompiled the modules and installed them. (also selected Y for paride.o ; I do not use the parallel port for printing and would like to have it set only for use with this tape drive...) I then installed the rpm 4.02-1 ftape package and rebooted. insmod ftape gives an error of "cannot find that module". Found the reason. The installation of this rpm package put ftape.o and the others modules in /lib/modules/2.0.35/misc/ but my current modules are in /lib/modules/2.2.9/ . I tried rebuilding the package with the source rpm, but got the following error. Is there a painless workaround? Thanks! Tony Laszlo Jiyugaoka, Tokyo -rw-r--r-- claus/sweethome 1892 1998-05-10 22:41 ftape-4.02/scripts/MAKEDEV.ftape + STATUS=0 + '[' 0 -ne 0 ']' + cd ftape-4.02 + chown -R root . + chgrp -R root . + chmod -R a+rX,g-w,o-w . + echo 'Patch #0:' Patch #0: + patch -p0 -s + echo 'Patch #1:' Patch #1: + patch -p0 -s The text leading up to this was: -------------------------- |diff -uNr ftape-4.02.orig/MCONFIG ftape-4.02/MCONFIG |--- ftape-4.02.orig/MCONFIG Tue Aug 18 08:18:17 1998 |+++ ftape-4.02/MCONFIG Fri Oct 9 00:05:31 1998 -------------------------- File to patch: Skip this patch? [y] y 5 out of 5 hunks ignored Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.35059 (%prep)
