Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261320AbTEMOLt (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2003 10:11:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261326AbTEMOLt (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2003 10:11:49 -0400 Received: from chaos.analogic.com ([204.178.40.224]:3712 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261309AbTEMOLr (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 May 2003 10:11:47 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 10:24:19 -0400 (EDT) From: "Richard B. Johnson" X-X-Sender: root@chaos Reply-To: root@chaos.analogic.com To: Alan Cox cc: Stephan von Krawczynski , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: What exactly does "supports Linux" mean? In-Reply-To: <1052830415.432.2.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Message-ID: References: <20030513151630.75ad4028.skraw@ithnet.com> <1052830415.432.2.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1443 Lines: 34 On Tue, 13 May 2003, Alan Cox wrote: > On Maw, 2003-05-13 at 14:16, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > > I bought a card from some vendor, claiming "support for Linux". I tried > to make > > it work in a configuration with a standard 2.4.20 kernel from kernel.org. > The > > drivers (kernel modules) are binary-only. They did not load because of a > > version mismatch. Asking for versions loadable with standard kernels, > I got the > > response that they only support kernels from Red Hat and SuSE, but > no standard > > kernels. > If you really want it to work, try `insmod -f modulename.o`. See of it works. RedHat supplies kernels with "intermediate" version numbers like linux-2.4.18-24. A perfectly-good module from linux-2.4.18 may fail to load without the '-f' option, even though it is probably compatible. Try it, it may work fine. You can modify /etc/rc.d/rc.local to insert the module during startup so you don't have to muck with /etc/modules.conf (and having other startup-code change it when it "finds" new hardware. Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.4.20 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips). Why is the government concerned about the lunatic fringe? Think about it. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/