So with the new release of potato, i've gone and done a clean install onto a new machine of mine. The problem at hand (i think) stems from the fact that this machine has a HighPoint 66 card, so i thought it ideal to install the special 2.2.17-ide kernel included with potato. So during the fresh install, i installed (using dselect) the ide kernel, and the headers for 2.2.17 and such. All is well, the machine boots, and the onboard dma66 is detected. The problem really arises when i try to compile the 3c90x module for the 3c905b i have installed in the machine. 3com provided a script which ran the proper gcc line, so that part should be okay. I then tried compiling it once, however it quit after not being able to find any header files. After reading 3com's instructions on compilation, it says that if you have upgraded your kernel, to include the command line option -I/usr/src/linux/include with the rest of the options to the gcc command in their script, and so i did. Second try at compilation came to no avail yet again. It *still* couldn't find the header files. This time i found it was because /usr/src/linux didn't even *exist*. Instead the includes were in /usr/src/2.2.17-ide/include or some such. So i created a sym link called /usr/src/linux to point to /usr/src/2.2.17-ide or whatever it was called (sorry i can't remember offhand). Anyway, after that, i compiled again, and finally, it finished. A simple insmod of the newly compiled module and i was greeted with the current (and so far unsolvable) problem: a message which said that this module could not be loaded since it was compiled for 2.2.17 and not for 2.2.17-ide (my kernel). Crap, now i don't have a clue. I mean, i've read up on it, but i only have a few drastic ideas, that of using removing the 2.2.17-ide package and going back to 2.2.17, or just compiling a new kernel myself and installing it using the make-kpkg utility installed by kernel-package. But that's about all i have for ideas. I'd like to still use my dma66 controller, so going back to the vanilla 2.2.17 isn't an appealing idea. Compilation is looking better and better, but i'd rather just fix what i have. Anyway, what gives? Does anyone know why i had these three different errors (having to use /usr/src/linux/include, finding that it didn't exist, and then, most importantly, find it didn't even compile for the right kernel?) I guess i easily fixed the first two, but damn, i have no idea why it didn't compile for the right kernel. Let me know if i haven't provided enough information for you all. Well, anyway, any help would be greatly appreciated, i'm looking forward to using my new debian machine :) Thanks,
dave
