On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 09:04:49PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > I didn't have the kernel headers for my 2.6.16 kernel and they do not seem > to be available in the Etch repository. I took this as a sign that it was > time to upgrade my kernel and upgraded to 2.6.22-3-k7 from backports. Then > I reran module-assistant.
well, etch is running a version of 2.6.18, so you might installing the current etch kernel before mucking around too much more... > > This time, m-a found and downloaded the kernel headers. I then selected > the module to compile. The gspca-source was not listed, so I used the > spca5xx-source. When I tried to build the sources, however, the build > failed. The logfile contained nothing but the date and time, so I have no > specific errors to report. It may be that the problem is using > spca5xx-source instead of gspca-source, but that was not listed as an > option. If I download it manually, might m-a find it and allow me to use > it. m-a won't be able to use it without futzing around inthe source directory and forcing m-a to *not* redownload the soruce package. probably just easier to pull down the tarball from upstream and do the typical make && make install. > > Any ideas on what I should try next? as above, get the current etch kernel and headers, and try again. and run through the whole m-a thing again as there are definitely gspca-modules-2.6 for a whole bunch of architectures.... Maybe it doesn't show up in the m-a menu, but I know I've built it with m-a from the command line. hth. A
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