Kernel module experiance

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Does anyone have any experiance with compiling drivers from source and or re compiling the kernel with new drivers?

I just got my new 200gb drive and a 4pt SATA card to power it but FC1 fails to auto detect it and will need a manual driver adition, which isnt available in rpm for anything newer than Red Hat 8 (which doesnt work on FC1 it seems)

if anyones done this let me know what i need to have a look at

 

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never mind I got it working this morning, managed to compile the drivers from source into a module, then added them to the kernel with modprobe

didnt even need to boot, the drive was accessable as soon as the modprobe had completed :P

 

Good one Phoenix.
Maybe you could do a step by step on how you compiled the source code and added the module to the kernel. I would also like to compile my own kernel but where to start...??

 

well there was no kernel recompiling involved, which unfortunatly means i will have to modprobe <driver> every boot, but i have concoted script to run at startup to rectify this

i will look into if i can re compile the module into the kernel itself, that would save me some headaches

im looking to revive my TOTD thread so I will come up with a few ideas to post