Re: Compiling a Driver for a PCI-e Serial Card

2014-12-15 Thread mariovenzetti
Alright, when i went to install the build-essential:i386 package, it came back with a lot of unmet dependencies. So, I worked my way through installing all the packages it told me I needed and I got it down to one left: hometheater@Hometheater:~$ sudo apt-get install build-essential:i386 Reading

Re: Compiling a Driver for a PCI-e Serial Card

2014-12-14 Thread Michael Butash
You want to specify the packages with the suffix ":i386" on them as you would a normal package, specifying the 32bit version. Which packages are actually missing is more hit and miss, I'd start by installing the binutils and maybe see if the meta-pacakge build-essential:i386 pulls them all.

Re: Compiling a Driver for a PCI-e Serial Card

2014-12-14 Thread mariovenzetti
dpkg --print-foreign-architectures gives this output: i386 so it looks like 32bit is enabled with multiarch. How would I install the devel libraries for binutils and the build tools for 32bit on my 64bit machine? I'm pretty new to all of this and have been learning everything along the way from v

Re: Compiling a Driver for a PCI-e Serial Card

2014-12-13 Thread Walter Mack
On 12/13/2014 05:23 PM, Andrew C. wrote: Yes, both of those are installed, and I'm running mythbuntu 14.04.1 LTS Original message From: Walter Mack Date:12/13/2014 4:53 PM (GMT-07:00) To: Main PLUG discussion list Cc: Subject: Re: Compiling a Driver for a PCI-e Serial Ca

Re: Compiling a Driver for a PCI-e Serial Card

2014-12-13 Thread Michael Butash
Seems like it wants the 32bit packages, maybe you don't have 32bit enabled with multiarch? dpkg --print-foreign-architectures Maybe just install the devel libraries for binutils and all the build tools for 32bit. It's probably not built for multi-arch, meaning if it insists on building a 32

Re: Compiling a Driver for a PCI-e Serial Card

2014-12-13 Thread Andrew C.
Yes, both of those are installed, and I'm running mythbuntu 14.04.1 LTS Original message From: Walter Mack Date:12/13/2014 4:53 PM (GMT-07:00) To: Main PLUG discussion list Cc: Subject: Re: Compiling a Driver for a PCI-e Serial Card Do you have binutils and the

Re: Compiling a Driver for a PCI-e Serial Card

2014-12-13 Thread Walter Mack
Do you have binutils and the linux-headers packages installed? What version of mythbuntu are you running? On 12/13/2014 04:31 PM, mariovenze...@cox.net wrote: Hello, I've been working on a MythTV on Mythbuntu project for a little while now and I've come to the step of setting up a serial ir

Compiling a Driver for a PCI-e Serial Card

2014-12-13 Thread mariovenzetti
Hello, I've been working on a MythTV on Mythbuntu project for a little while now and I've come to the step of setting up a serial ir blaster. My motherboard did not come with a serial port so I purchased an Iocrest PCI-Express Multi I/O Controller serial card. I see the card when typing in "lsp