From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bskmohan@gmail.com (sri) Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 12:53:47 +0530 Subject: building a specific driver in kernel src tree In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org Actually am using Centos-5.5 (kernel-2.6.18-194.el5) and trying to overwrite the e1000 drives with those in kernel-2.6.22. After resolving few symbols at compile time, when trying to load the kernel with this change, the e1000 probe method is failing with the error e1000: 0000:01:00.0: e1000_probe: The EEPROM Checksum Is Not Valid e1000: probe of 0000:01:00.0 failed with error -5 e1000: 0000:01:00.1: e1000_probe: The EEPROM Checksum Is Not Valid e1000: probe of 0000:01:00.1 failed with error -5 Am trying to debug that. Any help/pointers on why this occurs and how to resolve it? --Sri On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 11:35 AM, sri wrote: > the config had it as CONFIG_E1000=y > Does =y or =m make any difference? > > still not working. > > > On Mon, May 9, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Jeff Kirsher > wrote: > >> On Sun, May 8, 2011 at 22:49, sri wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > As part of learning, I have added few debug statements to the code at >> > drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c (e1000_probe function). >> > Now to compile this, am doing make -C >> /lib/modules/2.6.18-194.el5PAE/build >> > M=`pwd` modules under drivers/net/e1000 dir. >> > >> > That is not compiling anything. But the same thing when I do in >> > drivers/net/e1000e, it is compiling and creating e1000e.ko file. >> > >> >> Check your kernel config file (which is .config) to make sure that >> CONFIG_E1000=m >> >> Then you should be able to run ` make drivers/net/e1000` to build the >> e1000 driver as a module >> >> > Any help on how to get e1000.ko? >> > >> > --Sri >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Kernelnewbies mailing list >> > Kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org >> > http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies >> > >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Cheers, >> Jeff >> > > > > -- > -- > Krishna Mohan B > -- -- Krishna Mohan B -- -- Krishna Mohan B -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/attachments/20110509/6ba7daa8/attachment-0001.html