[linux-help] Re: How to compile a driver

[John Reinke <jmreinke@xxxxxxxxx>]

Someone else should probably step in here to correct me or to supply
instructions, but I believe you will need to place the code in a specific
directory, and then reconfigure and compile your kernel. The driver will
need to be compiled into the kernel or into a module to be used by the
kernel. In fact, the driver code might already be on your computer.

I've only compiled my kernel a few times, and while it works, I always get
a lot of "modprobe couldn't find..." warnings during startup.

John

>Something is very wrong.  I very carefully copied the compile line for each
>of these .c files and all I get is about 100 pages of errors.
>
>Installing Individual Drivers
>
>Drivers may be updated individually by following the directions in
>http://scyld.com/expert/modules.html. You will need to build both the
>driver.o and pci-scan.o modules using the following source files from
>ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/
>
>     the driver source file   ---   winbond-840.c
>     pci-scan.c
>     pci-scan.h and
>     kern_compat.h



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