[plug] trouble compiling zip drive support

[barry]

the default kernal couldn't find the zip drive kept saying there was nothing
there on auto find. i didnt have the info to tell it what to look for with the
parameters. this happened on both my laptop and desktop. Under rh5.0 it was
found on both machines.

i recompiled both the new kernal and the modules.

under xconfig i turned on the relevant parts for scsi support and iomega ppa
support then recompiled using make dep; make clean; make bzImage; make modules
make modules_install and then installed the kernal in /boot and reran lilo

On Thu, 07 Oct 1999, you wrote:
> 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.