Highpoint IDE Raid Card

[Rick Stevens]

On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 18:36 -0500, Mark McCulligh wrote:
> Hi Group,
> 
> I have a Hightpoint RocketRAID 133 raid card that I am trying to 
> install.  I downloaded the driver from their website and I have to 
> configure it with the kernel source.
> 
> make KERNELDIR=/usr/src/linux-2.6.4-52-default   [from their readme file]
> 
> To get my kernel source as I know it is no longer part of the default 
> install I did the following commands.
> up2date --get-source kernel
> rpm -Uvh kernel-2.6.12-1-1381_FC3.src.rpm
> cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS
> rpmbuild -bp --target=i586 kernel-2.6.spec
> cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.12/linux-2.6.12/configs
> cp kernel-2.6.12-i586.config ./.config
> cd ..
> make oldconfig
> 
> At this point I am lost.  Where do I tell highpoint where my kernel 
> source is?
> 
> I tried this:
> make KERNELDIR=/usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.12/linux-2.6.12
> but I just got a lot of errors.
> 
> Has anyone used this card and can get me an idea on what I need to do.

It'd help if we could see some of the errors you got.  You probably need
to actually build the kernel and modules...some 3rd party drivers need a
real kernel and not just the configured source:

	# cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/kernel-2.6.12/linux-2.6.12
	# make bzImage;make modules

After that, your make command for the driver should work.

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