Re: Cnet 611 support

I agree with whatever you think, I'm very happy someone undesrtands this
stuff better than me - otherwise we'd be in trouble! 

Thanks for an excellent project. It's helping my family get more mobile.

If you need any calendaring software, try mine:
www.sf.net/projects/jical

Best regards


Stuart Guthrie

On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 09:18, Joerg Albert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, sfg wrote:
> 
> > OK I got it! 1371/0001 Device is now pinging back after lots of time and
> > hair pulling.
> >
> > Problem was that Mandrake 9.2 puts and expects its drivers for this at
> > series in a directory called /3rdParty/at76c503 not /usb. This meant
> > that the  usbdfu.c routine knew it needed to load the driver but could
> > not find it (I think). More debug messages would have saved me lots of
> > time here as I am not a competent driver person at all.
> >
> > I made this change to the CVS Makefile and it loaded the modules where I
> > needed them:
> >
> > Makefile:
> >
> > # SFG altered from usb to 3rdParty/at76c503 for Mandrake 9.2
> > #OLD ONE MODULE_DIR =
> > $(DESTDIR)/lib/modules/$(KERNEL_VERSION)/kernel/drivers/usb
> > new one >>>MODULE_DIR =
> > $(DESTDIR)/lib/modules/$(KERNEL_VERSION)/kernel/drivers/3rdParty/at76c503
> 
> I'd rather asssume that the old driver version (delivered as part of
> Mandrake 9.2) resides in 3rdParty/at76c503 and the Makefile of the Berlios
> sources put the new version into ../usb. If you get two drivers for the
> same USB id pair, it depends on depmod's scan order, which one will be put
> first in the modules.usbmap and get activated later.
> 
> Maybe "make install" should first remove any driver files found under
> /lib/modules/`umask`/ before installing itself?
> 
> /Jörg
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