Where to build/install ADC module

[Rich]

Hi MTCAT
You are still trying to compile the old source package. That package is looking for  get_info  which was removed in
kernel 2.6.26. You are running 2.6.33. It doesn't have  get_info  so the old driver won't build on it.

[Rich]

Hi MTCAT
If you unpack the source package in your home directory, you won't need to use sudo for everything.

[MTCAT]

Hi Rich,

Oh, okay, sorry I didn't "clue in" to that, thanks for explaining that to me, I'll try building the newest driver (4.11) this afternoon then.

Explains why Slack12 (2.6.21.5) was able to build the driver at least (but still wasn't able to load the module due to CPU confusion I think).

Thanks,

David

[MTCAT]

Hi Rich,

I tried to install the new driver package (24dsi.linux.4.11.91.32.0.tar.gz) and unfortunately the behavior seems worse, immediately started spewing errors.

Attached a screenshot, "/bin/sh: stat: not found", over and over !

Is there perhaps another tinycore "package" that needs to be installed ?

Thanks,

David

[Rich]

Hi MTCAT
Install  coreutils.tcz.

[MTCAT]

Hi Rich,

Thanks, that did it ! ! !, awesome, thanks so much.

There's now a 24dsi.o (not .ko ??) module that's loaded, when I type "lsmod", whoop there it is, 24dsi !, sure took a long time to compile all the individual c programs though, seems a lot more complicated than the "old" driver, a lot of new functions available I suppose, I'm sure it will give my existing acquisition code fits...

With respect to the old driver, do you think a version of TinyCore with kernel 2.6.26 or older would be worth a try ? Would that be TinyCore2 ?

Or, maybe just grin and bear it and try to move forward with the new driver, I have no idea the horrors that may await trying to get the acquisition code to work with it though...

Thanks,

David

[Rich]

Hi MTCAT

... With respect to the old driver, do you think a version of TinyCore with kernel 2.6.26 or older would be worth a try ? ...

If you reread reply #15, that function was removed in 2.26.26. So you would need 2.6.25 or older.

... Would that be TinyCore2 ? ...

TC2 used kernel 2.6.29.
TC1 used kernel 2.6.26.

[MTCAT]

Hi Rich, thanks again so much, I have to make a journal here of all the steps you guys "walked me through" to get this to work ! I can post that too if you think it might help someone else ?

But then, I still need to save all the changes so I don't have to re-install all the packages every boot up, just reading up on the wiki-page on that, boot codes, etc. 

Sounds like, when installing packages, I can also use the "SET" option in the Installer to set the location of the package install, i.e., a hard drive, or in my case, a CF card, and then with a boot code, can load all those packages on every boot up, is that the basic idea ?

I guess I'll probably stick with the new driver and move forward with that, one advantage of the new driver is that I should also be able to use a newer version of TinyCore if I want too, I don't know if there would be any advantages though ?, I don't have a problem with TinyCore3, looks like it will do everything I need, so, not sure, I always would like to keep things as simple as possible....

The next (last ?) step will be getting the acquisition code running, hopefully that will be possible.

Thanks again for all your help !

[MTCAT]

Hi Rich,

For my own notes and education, can you tell me why the command below is needed to install the ADC driver ?

tce-load -wi compiletc perl5 bash ncursesw-dev bc-1.06.94 glibc_apps elfutils-dev

I do know that "compiletc" installs gcc of course.

Are Perl5 and Bash also needed just to be able to execute the commands in the ADC "makefile" ? Scripting commands, almost like a batch file dare I say ? My programming experience to date has been very crude (Fortran77/90) in the sense of just compiling single programs at the command line, or compiling a few programs separately, and then just linking the few object files manually, I've never made my own "Makefile" before, so I'm new to Makefiles in general.

What about these guys ?

ncursesw-dev - for reading "wide" characters, Unicode, not even sure what that is.

bc - command line calculator I think ?

glibc_apps - extra C functionality ?

elfutils-dev - to be able to read ELF binary files, whatever that is ?

Thanks so much.

David

[Rich]

Hi MTCAT

For my own notes and education, can you tell me why the command below is needed to install the ADC driver ?

tce-load -wi compiletc perl5 bash ncursesw-dev bc-1.06.94 glibc_apps elfutils-dev ...

It's not. It's needed to compile the driver. I don't know that you need all of them. This is the list of extensions required
to compile a kernel, so I used it as a starting point.

[MTCAT]

Hi Rich,

Oh, okay, better to have more packages than less I suppose, play it safe type of thing.

Thanks for letting me know.

Cheers,

David