Re: Colorado Trakker Parallel drive.

UPDATE**

I've recompiled the kernel so that all parallel stuff was compiled as a module.
make clean
make menucofig {changed all parallel stuff to be a module}
make dep
make bzdisk
make modules
make modules_install
reboot

Still can't load the trakker module....complains heavily just like before.

Will this not work? 
Does anyone have any advice on this....I'm pulling my fscking hair out.

I guess next I"l try the same steps as above....but recompiling the modules AGAIN.
It doesn't seem like I should HAVE to recompile the module again......but I guess I will.
Perhaps there is something very fundamental that I'm just overlooking.
I can't beleive I've gone through all of this just for a stupid 250MB tape drive!




On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 09:44:51AM -0400, smed wrote:
> OK - thanks for the previous help.
> Now - I've recompiled the kernel AGAIN....
> This time with basic parallel support and parallel PC support built into the kernel.
> I also recompiled the ftape modules and installed it.
> This time the trakker and the bpkc-fdc module will load....however it's not working properly.
> When I look in the /proc/parport/0/hardware   I can see that the IRQ and DMA are not assigned....
> Apparently the kernel isn't able to figure those parameters out during the autoprobe at boot.
> I'm fairly certain that is the reason why the trakker driver isnt' able to read me a status off the drive.
> 
> I am now recompiling my kernel AGAIN as I type with NO PARALLEL support of any kind in the kernel.
> I will create an entry in /etc/modules.conf and load that module myself with the correct resource values.
> This oughta make that drive work!
> 
> Thanks again for your help.....hope I've got this problem licked.....
> Any thoughs, comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Has anyone else gone through this before?  What a mess!
> Almost makes me apprectiate that 'other' PC O/S - nah.......
> 
> smed
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jun 17, 2002 at 07:10:25PM +0200, Jochen Hoenicke wrote:
> > On Monday, 17. June 2002 17:35, smed wrote:
> > > When I do a 'make menuconfig' there is a section in the
> > > configurator to configure ftape....I just plug in the appropriate
> > > numbers. I don't know how this part in 'make menuconfig' relates to
> > > fresh ftape source code.......perhaps this is where I'm screwing
> > > up. Maybe I shouldn't touch the ftape section in 'make menuconfig'
> > > at all....I don't know.
> > 
> > Yes, it is best to turn it off (and remove the modules produced in 
> > the compiles before) as this is an old version of ftape (ftape-3).  
> > You may also try to play with the CONFIG_MODVERSIONS switch.  And 
> > make sure that everything is rebuilt correctly when you change the 
> > configuration.
> > 
> >   Jochen
> > 
> > -- 
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