[Arcnet] newbie -- trying to get arcnet to compile with linux 2.6.17

[Sean Votier]

Chip, I wasn't able to get it to work with the 2.6 kernel. I currently 
have a machine with the 2.4 kernel (slackware) installed and it works 
just fine.
    Sean


Charles E Campbell Jr wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I'm trying to compile arcnet 3.94 (is there a later one?) for a Linux 
> 2.6.17 kernel (nominally a redhat machine).
> I've already changed -m... options to -f... options to keep gcc happy.  
> However, I'm getting a lot of warnings
> and errors (1664 of them so far) -- here's the first five:
> 
> cc1: error: /usr/src/linux-2.6.17/include/linux/modversions.h: No such 
> file or directory
> In file included from /usr/src/linux-2.6.17/include/linux/config.h:6,
>                 from /usr/src/linux-2.6.17/include/linux/module.h:9,
>                 from arcnet.c:46:
> /usr/include/linux/autoconf.h:1:2: error: #error Invalid kernel header 
> included in userspace
> 
> So, is arcnet still an active driver?  Is there a 2.6.17 compilable 
> version somewhere?  Upon
> surfing the net it appears that not much has happened since 2002 or 
> so/linux 2.4.
> 
> Just wondering,
> Chip Campbell
> 
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