I have been unable to set up a module for my DPT fibrechannel host adapter, partly through unavailability, and partly through inexperience.
Found Ricky Beam's 2.4.0-test7 .diff, but lack the experience to retrofit it to 2.4.2. Tried patch -su <dpt_i2o-test7.diff to my kernel 2.4.2 source, but many errors not surprisingly. Tried hand-modifying the files it changes and creating the .c & .h files, but failed there too.
What he made is (an apparently) unified .diff file for an older version of the kernel,
and I would like to get my fibrechannel working as (at least) a module in 2.4.2 and later if possible.
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On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 05:33:02PM -0600, [email protected] wrote:
> I have been unable to set up a module for my DPT fibrechannel host adapter, partly through unavailability, and partly through inexperience.
There is a nice suppary of current DPT driver status on Kernel
Traffic #113:
http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/kt20010330_113.html#3
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Thank you Marko. This was exactly what I was looking for. And thank you very much Omar Kilani for the retrofit. But kernel doesn't recognize the adapter.
Installed the patch, compiled, installed, & everything seemed to go fine. Booted to IDE... no problems, except the DPT HA wasn't recognized. There was no mention of the DPT in messages, either recognized as hardware, nor to load the driver.
I am running an MSI KT7Turbo mobo with Athlon 850. Six PCI & no IDE. DPT PM3755F fibrechannel host adapter is in the first slot & has two Cheetahs attached. Outfit works fine in Winders2k. Trying to move to kernel 2.4.2, in RedHat Wolverine.
Please help.
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Marko Kreen wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 05:33:02PM -0600, [email protected] wrote:
> > I have been unable to set up a module for my DPT fibrechannel host adapter, partly through unavailability, and partly through inexperience.
>
> There is a nice suppary of current DPT driver status on Kernel
> Traffic #113:
>
> http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/kt20010330_113.html#3
>
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So no one is willing or able to help me with this problem? I have invested much time and effort toward switching from Win2k to Linux, but if I can't get fibrechannel working it's not going to happen.
Applying the patch & compiling went fine. But the new kernel doesn't recognize the FC host adapter (though the bios does) and there is no dpt_i20 module so I can't insmod. I don't know how to tell whether the driver is in the kernel. Maybe I'm just not smart enough for Linux.
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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: DPT PM3755F Fibrechannel Host Adapter
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 08:51:57 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: Marko Kreen <[email protected]>
CC: [email protected]
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> <[email protected]>
Thank you Marko. This was exactly what I was looking for. And thank you very much Omar Kilani for the retrofit. But kernel doesn't recognize the adapter.
Installed the patch, compiled, installed, & everything seemed to go fine. Booted to IDE... no problems, except the DPT HA wasn't recognized. There was no mention of the DPT in messages, either recognized as hardware, nor to load the driver.
I am running an MSI KT7Turbo mobo with Athlon 850. Six PCI & no IDE. DPT PM3755F fibrechannel host adapter is in the first slot & has two Cheetahs attached. Outfit works fine in Winders2k. Trying to move to kernel 2.4.2, in RedHat Wolverine.
Please help.
--
C.
The best way out is always through.
- Robert Frost A Servant to Servants, 1914
Marko Kreen wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 05:33:02PM -0600, [email protected] wrote:
> > I have been unable to set up a module for my DPT fibrechannel host adapter, partly through unavailability, and partly through inexperience.
>
> There is a nice suppary of current DPT driver status on Kernel
> Traffic #113:
>
> http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/kt20010330_113.html#3
>
> --
> marko
>
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> Applying the patch & compiling went fine. But the new kernel doesn't recognize the FC host adapter (though the bios does) and there is no dpt_i20 module so I can't insmod. I don't know how to tell whether the driver is in the kernel. Maybe I'm just not smart enough for Linux.
>
No its not your fault. The dpt_i2o stuff depends on a driver that isnt in the
standard kernels, doesn't work for all cases. Im still trying to get a driver
out of them good enough to merge but its an incredibly slow tedious process.
For actual work I'm using symbios fibrechannel cards and most people I know
use qlogic cards with Linux.
Alan