[plug] trouble compiling zip drive support

[Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima]

On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, barry wrote:

> hi,
> need help with the following
> i have redhat 6.0 on a 166 with 32meg ram and have been having trouble getting
> my zip drive to work. when using rh5.0 i had no trouble compilling in support
> but under rh6 when i installed it on a new machine it couldn't find the zip
> drive.  now when i have made up a new kernal 

The default kernel that comes with RedHat 6.0 has support for the zip drive.
I (and several friends) are using it.  What type of errors did you get ???

> (Linux version 2.2.5-15 (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2)) 
> everything goes as planned but when i reboot, the zipdrive is not
> found and when i try to insert the module mannually (ppa.o) i get the following
> unresolved symbol errors.
> 
> /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/scsi/ppa.o: unresolved symbol parport_claim_Rcca15f23
> /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/scsi/ppa.o: unresolved symbol parport_register_device_R064ebecf
> /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/scsi/ppa.o: unresolved symbol parport_unregister_device_R3618c96f
> /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/scsi/ppa.o: unresolved symbol parport_enumerate_R648d1e26
> /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/scsi/ppa.o: unresolved symbol parport_release_R4430d136
> 
> my zip drive is one of the older ones that would need the ppa driver and is
> going to be installed as a module and i have done the make modules, make
> modules_install

So you only recompiled the moduels ??? not the whole kernel ???
 
> any help trying to get this to work will be much appreciated
> tia

If I where you I'd grab the updates to 
kernel*-2.2.5-22.i386.rpm

or even 
kernel*-2.2.12-20.i386.rpm
from the RedHat 6.1 disto.

mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/redhat

it may save you reinventing the wheel.

Yours Tony.