Driver disks for FC6

Matt Domsch Matt_Domsch at dell.com
Tue Oct 24 19:38:20 UTC 2006


On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 03:34:13PM -0400, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> Is there a driver disk for FC6 example anywhere?
> The driver disk layout changed a few revisions ago and I had a lot of
> trouble building one for FC5.  Now that FC6 has come around I'd like
> to avoid pulling my hair out again.
> 
> I need to make a disk for the Arcea driver, arcmsr, which has finally
> gone into the upstream kernel (as of 2.6.19-pre1). Hopefully FC6 will
> upgrade to a kernel containing this driver soon, but to get it
> installed, I'll need to make a disk.  It looks like compiling the
> driver outside of the tree against the kernel in FC6 shouldn't be
> hard... but I'm worried about figuring out the driver disk layout all
> over again. ... (well that and finding a working floppy disk drive..
> ugh)

DKMS mkdriverdisk doesn't work?


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