I was tying to install Linux on a real time system (via an external CD-ROM drive with DOS device driver only. So copy files to Hard disk using DOS and then install using the boot diskette. Linux 7.0 official RH pack was loaded. When we loaded the systems device drivers used for real time data acquisition using, we found tat the modules did not get installed due to incorrect kernel version. We had 2.2.16-22 and 2.2.12-18 was required. We got another version of driver for 2.4.2, I loaded the kernel from PCQ (july-Aug 2001) but the PCQ kernel was 2.4.2-2 and even this did not work. The message that I got was that the driver required kernel 2.4.2 while we had 2.4.2-2 installed.
Why is this so? When drivers are made for one kernel version then why should it not work with a higher kernel version.
Anand
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 08:30:58AM +0530, Anand Iyer wrote:
Why is this so? When drivers are made for one kernel version then why should it not work with a higher kernel version.
Do you have the source code? Recompile.
Modules are sensitive to version numbers.
2.4.2 is different from 2.4.2-2 etc.
Since you don't seem to be compiling your own kernel, get those compiled for a system like yours.
For example: If you have RH-7.2, go to the site of the provider of the driver, and look for a package for your own distribution. (This is helpful in case the source code is not available)
hth.
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Anand Iyer -
Ravindra Jaju