newbie with a qlogic host bus adapter

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2002-01-17 22:09 UTC #0 lore raw

I have a Qlogic qla2200f host bus adapter for an optical SAN. I am running SuSE linux 7.1, I just downloaded kernel 2.4.17 sources and want to compile a kernel. But when I "make menuconfig"
I go into scsi support, and into scs low level drivers, the qlogic "qla2x00 QLC driver support" is not an option as it should be according to the documentation for the qla2200.
how do i fix that?

also i tried to just compile the drivers to be modules, but i get the
error: /usr/src/linux-2.4/include/linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory

where can I get this file?

Thankyou much.
Howard

Matthias Andree

2002-01-17 22:33 UTC #1 lore raw

Quoted 8 lines · root

I have a Qlogic qla2200f host bus adapter for an optical SAN. I am running SuSE linux 7.1, I just downloaded kernel 2.4.17 sources and want to compile a kernel. But when I "make menuconfig"
I go into scsi support, and into scs low level drivers, the qlogic "qla2x00 QLC driver support" is not an option as it should be according to the documentation for the qla2200.
how do i fix that?

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also i tried to just compile the drivers to be modules, but i get the
error: /usr/src/linux-2.4/include/linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory
where can I get this file?

You can probably just do
cd /usr/src
ln -s linux-2.4.WHATEVERSUSE7.1HAS linux-2.4

to "fix" the latter problem, or maybe you need to tweak the Makefile.

As to the former problem, I cannot tell. Should your problem not be solved until Jan 27th, feel free to ask me in private mail.

Oh, and while I'm at it: please do use a regular user account to read and send mail, root should not expose himself to the dangers of possible bugs in his mailer -- use yast or useradd to add a regular user for yourself, and use /etc/aliases or /etc/mail/aliases to forward root mail to that user.

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Timothy Covell

2002-01-17 23:16 UTC #2 lore raw

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Quoted 21 lines · Matthias Andree

Quoted 8 lines · root
I have a Qlogic qla2200f host bus adapter for an optical SAN. I am running SuSE linux 7.1, I just downloaded kernel 2.4.17 sources and want to compile a kernel. But when I "make menuconfig"
I go into scsi support, and into scs low level drivers, the qlogic "qla2x00 QLC driver support" is not an option as it should be according to the documentation for the qla2200.
how do i fix that?
Quoted 5 lines
also i tried to just compile the drivers to be modules, but i get the
error: /usr/src/linux-2.4/include/linux/modversions.h: No such file or directory
where can I get this file?
You can probably just do
cd /usr/src
ln -s linux-2.4.WHATEVERSUSE7.1HAS linux-2.4
to "fix" the latter problem, or maybe you need to tweak the Makefile.

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As to the former problem, I cannot tell. Should your problem not be solved until Jan 27th, feel free to ask me in private mail.
Oh, and while I'm at it: please do use a regular user account to read and send mail, root should not expose himself to the dangers of possible bugs in his mailer -- use yast or useradd to add a regular user for yourself, and use /etc/aliases or /etc/mail/aliases to forward root mail to that user.

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