[64studio-devel] Problems compiling modules with 64studio

[Free Ekanayaka]

|--==> Philippe Macaire writes:

  PM> Hi everyone,
  PM> I'm a newcomer to Linux (though I have some industrial Unix experience
  PM> as a programmer), and I installed 64studio in order to substitute my
  PM> old Atari-Cubase duo with something more ... colorful! ;-)

  PM> So far I'm quite satisfied with what I've found (just playing with
  PM> MIDI and Rosegarden), and I would like to thank you all for this great
  PM> distro.

  PM> Now comes the issue I've bumped into: my Acer laptop has an Intel PRO
  PM> wireless card which I've understood to be supported through a module
  PM> called ipw2100.

  PM> I've found with 64studio 1.0 (then 1.2, then 1.3) a pre-compiled module
  PM> called
  PM> ipw2200, which does not seem to work with my card.

  PM> So I found out I could use the module-assistant to manage my modules:
  PM> I tried to update, prepare, get, build etc. the ipw2100, but apparently
  PM> there's a compatibility problem with the gcc version I'm using: at
  PM> boot time I can see something like a "magic version" FATAL error, and
  PM> the module does not load.

  PM> If my understanding's correct, the kernel is built with gcc 4.0, and

It depends on which version of the kernel are you running, the latest

linux-image-2.6.19-1-multimedia-amd64
linux-image-2.6.19-1-multimedia-486

kernels are compiled with gcc-4.1:

root at 64studio:~# zcat /usr/share/doc/linux-image-2.6.19-1-multimedia-amd64/buildinfo.gz 
binutils-2.17-3
dpkg-1.13.25
dpkg-dev-1.13.25
gcc-4.1.1-15
gcc-4.1-4.1.1-21
gcc-4.1-base-4.1.1-21
libc6-2.3.6.ds1-13
libc6-dev-2.3.6.ds1-13
make-3.81-2
perl-5.8.8-7
this was built on a machine with the kernel:
Linux 64studio.com 2.6.8-11-amd64-generic #1 Sun Oct 2 19:35:59 UTC 2005 x86_64 GNU/Linux
using the compiler:
gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)
kernel source package used:
applied kernel patches:

which is also the default system compiler on a plain 1.3.0 installation:

root at 64studio:# gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Please try to install a fresh 1.3.0 and let us know if you still have
this problem.

  PM> so should be the modules... Unfortunately the gcc version available in
  PM> 64studio is 4.1. I couldn't even find on the debian.org site any
  PM> package for gcc 4.0.

If you really need it, you can find it on snapshot.debian.net

Ciao,

Free