Hello all.
I don't know if I am a Linux newbie or not [If you can compile kernels OK are you a newbie ???] but I have been using Linux for over a year now and am very, very impressed. I try and use Linux instead of MS whenever possible. Unfortunately I have to use MS as well and I boot Win 2000, DOS and Redhat quite happily on my PC. I work as a senior tech support specialist and I also have a good grounding in electronics.
Reason for joining ALUG ? Apart from living in Mileham, I think meeting some experienced users would be good as it will knock a good chunk of Microsoft out of me !!! Of course, I will be happy to contribute my limited Linux knowledge but I realise there are lots of far more experienced people then me out there ...
Oh yes, and I have a real nasty problem with a Promise Fasttrak controller module that I cannot compile against the vanilla RH6.2 2.2.x kernel or the latest 2.4.x kernel release. Promise support is naff, and they only distribute the SMP module in .o format ... I can boot the box OK as Linux is on a standard IDE drive, but it bombs when insmod tries to load ft.o for the RAID drive with unresolved symbols. I can install ft.o fine on a clean install using the 'expert text dd' options, and mount drives etc. but when I recompile the kernel [I need NTFS support] I get unresolved symbols. Using the insmod -f option does not allow the module to load. I am including SCSI and RAID support in the kernel.
I have also checked the symbol versioning :
mv .config 000.cfg make mrproper mv 000.cfg .config make dep clean modules modules_install bzImage
As I cannot get the source to this module am I doomed to having no NTFS support ?
Any suggestions, comments, brickbats etc. more than welcome.
Thanks.