On Tuesday 21 September 2004 00:08, Lanman wrote:
Dear List,
As the subject mentions, I have an IRDA dongle which connects to my USB port. The Infra-Red unit is used to transfer pictures from a Casio digital camera to the PC.
The dongle is recognized on my USB port properly, although it doesn't allow me to determine which port it's connected to. meanwhile, I've downloaded the source code for the driver module, but I'm receiving a lot of errors when trying to "make" the driver.
All of this is happening on Mandrake 10.0 , so I'd appreciate any suggestions if possible.
TIA
Erm.. If you try telling us what the errors are and maybe the name of the driver you might get a meaningful reply.
derek
Sorry for the lack of info Derek. The driver module is called "stir4200" and the first lines of the error message look like this;
"cc -I/lib/modules/2.6.8.1-10mdk/build/include -I../include -Wall -Wcast-align -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -DLI NUX -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=
2 -include /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-10mdk/build/include/linux/modversions.h -DKBUILD_BASENAME=stir4200 -o stir 4200.o -c stir4200.c"
There's about 100 lines of error messages that result from trying to "make" the module. What I've posted above is just the beginning few lines. After this pre-amble, it goes on to say quite a bit about
"cc1: /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-10mdk/build/include/linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory", and repeats several similar messages about files or directories not existing.
The strange thing about it, is that there's already a driver module included with the kernel, but it won't install or load and MCC says that it's an unknown piece of hardware.
Just out of curiosity, how do I determine which USB device port it's attached to? USBview had lots of info about the unit, but doesn't clearly state the device settings to use, - ie; it doesn't say anything about which device to assign for the IRDA to USB bridge like "proc/dev/usb/???", so i can't accurately point it to a spcific port designation.
These latest error codes are from Mandrake10.1 Community. I updated Mandrake hoping it would solve the problem, but as you can see, I wasn't successful.
Any ideas? TIA
Lanman Registered Linux User #190712
____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com ____________________________________________________
